An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Saturday adjourned the hearing of murder case of Shahid Hamid, the slain managing director of the then Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC), now known as K-Electric (KE).
The murder case was reopened in May 2016 after the arrest of Mihaj Qazi, the former security in charge of MQM’s headquarter Nine Zero.
Saulat Mirza, one of the main suspects in the case was executed by hanging at Mach Jail Baluchistan in May 2015.
The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) founder Altaf Hussain was also nominated as the absconder in the case, while Minhaj Qazi is being tried in the case right now. He was successfully identified by the widow of the slain and his son as one of the shooters who gunned down Hamid in Defense Housing Authority in 1997.
He also spent 90 days in preventive detention of the Rangers over his alleged involvement in the offences that come within the ambit of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997. Later, he was handed over to Defense police in the murder case.
Hamid, along with his driver Ashraf Barohi and guard Akbar Khan was shot dead in 1997 in DHA allegedly on political enmity.
