The Sindh High Court (SHC) Monday sought comments from the provincial Prosecution Department on an application seeking transfer of Chakra Goth attack case from Karachi to another court in the province.
A division bench headed by Chief Justice Maqbool Baqar had taken up a criminal transfer application filed by Sindh Dost Party leader Ashiq Ali Chandio, who pleaded to the court to transfer the case along with accused to another court in the province.
Ashiq, who is also complainant in the attack, murder, kidnapping and terrorism case, submitted that he and witnesses of the case were receiving life threats as a political party was involved in the case. He added that he had also addressed several applications to the home secretary for transfer of the case from Karachi but could elicit no response.
Ashiq had lodged an FIR at Zaman Town Police Station submitting that over 50 armed people, who according to him belonged to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, attacked his house with lethal weapons.
As a result, two persons, Mohammad Hasan and Mohammad Sulman, were killed and Rizwan, Babar, Sikandar, Bashir and Mohammad Arib were injured. The complainant also alleged that the attackers also kidnapped his nephew, Shahzad, and torched more than 10 vehicles.
Later, police had arrested Kamran alias Madhori, Sohail Arain, Mohsin Naeem, Abdul Subhan, Abul Bashar, Iftikhar, Irfan Haider, Mohammad Nadeem and Sikandar Ali from the Chakra Goth area on charges of attacking the complainant’s house and killing his two relatives.
