The Model Town judicial magistrate on Monday sent Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Riasat Ali Javed, Sub-Inspector Muhammad Riaz and constables Abdul Qadir and Muhammad Asif to the Kot Lakhpat Jail on judicial remand until July 4. The accused were involved in murdering citizen Shahbaz Butt, who was under custody, in a fake police encounter and a case was lodged against them at the Nishtar Colony Police Station precincts. The policemen had arrested Shahbaz from the Youhanabad Area on Friday night after he looted the Mecca Medical Store with his two companions and just after an hour of his arrest, Shahbaz was murdered in a fake police encounter near the Rohi Drain.
Earlier, Nishtar Colony Police presented the accused in court seeking an eight days extension in their physical remand. The court, rejecting the police’s request, sent the accused to jail on judicial remand. During the hearing, the policemen’s counsel requested the court to send his clients to the Central Jail instead of the Kot Lakhpat Jail, as there was a life threat to his clients at the Kot Lakhpat Jail. The court rejected the defence counsel’s request stating that all accused were equal in law.
Separately, an accountability court awarded five years imprisonment and imposed a fine of Rs 2.5 million on former Muzzaffargarh postmaster Talib Hussain Leghari, involved in embezzlement of Rs 2.5 million from the post office exchequer. A reference was filed against Leghari on charges of misappropriation. The court, concluding the trial, convicted the accused. Also on Monday, an accountability court extended the judicial remand of Imtinan Saeed, Omeed Ayyaz Mehmood and Faisal Rashid until July 1, who are involved in embezzlement of a loan worth Rs 140 million from the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP).
Mehmood was manager of the NBP Lytton Road Branch while Imtinan was the bank’s legal counsel. Imtinan and Faisal established five different firms including Paragon Leather, Imperial Chemicals, Ikhlaq Traders, Y to K Traders and Copier Traders. The accused acquired five different loans on fake documents in name of their firms from the NBP, Lytton Road Branch, worth Rs 140 million and embezzled the amount afterwards. Mehmood, helping the accused, sanctioned three bogus loans worth Rs 100 million against fake collaterals and without verifying documents.
An accountability court extended the judicial remand of Kanal Motors directors Hafiz Usman Yousaf, Rana Qaisar Nazir, Mohsin Abbasi and Ahsan Abbasi until July 11. The accused collected more than Rs 1.2 billion from the public at large under the garb of car trading and embezzled the amount with active connivance of each other and transferred the looted money into accounts of benamidars.
