The Sindh High Court (SHC) adjourned the hearing on a revision appeal on Friday, filed by a complainant of Shershah carnage case, Muhammad Nafees, seeking arrest of the men acquitted from the case. The single bench of Justice Gulzar Ahmed heard the appeal, wherein Assistant Advocate Adnan Memon appeared before him and requested for more time, as the acquitted persons (alleged accused) have not received notices from the court. Granting his request, the court adjourned the hearing and directed Memon to submit their comments in the next hearing to be fixed later.
Nafees had moved a plea, submitting that on Jan 26 an anti-terrorism court administrative judge had acquitted nine suspects of the Shershah scrap market carnage, as the eyewitnesses could not identify them before the court. He stated that the alleged accused named Ijaz, Iqbal, Mohammad Akbar, Asghar Ali, Mohammad Tufail, Abdul Rasheed, Tehseen, Jauhar, Abid and another had surrendered themselves to the police on Jan 11 and since then, he has been receiving life threats from their accomplices, who were forcing him to withdraw the case and not to identify the accused before the court during the identification parade.
The petitioner added that he did so but now he has realised his blunder. According to the prosecution, all accused were associated with a notorious gang involved in the Lyari gang war and were booked for killing 13 people at the Shershah scrap market on Oct 19, 2010. On the complaint of Nafees, a case (FIR 578/2010) was registered against 17 suspects including Baba Ladla at the Pak Colony police station under sections 302 (premeditated murder), 324 (attempted murder), 386 (extortion by putting a person in fear of death or grievous hurt) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code, and Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997.
