Blast accused remanded to police custody
RAWALPINDI – Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) Rawalpindi No.1 gave three days physical remand of four suspects for their alleged involvement in Islamabad bomb blasts here on Monday. All the four accused were brought here from high security prison in Faisalabad under tight security.
The Judge Habibur Rehman remanded the four accused Faisal Mushtaq, Qasim Mushtaq, Fasihullah and Imdad Ullah into police custody for three days.
The defence counsel advocate Rehan-ud-Din representing the two suspected brothers, Faisal and Qasim contended the demand of the police for physical remand was because that police wanted to involve them in the cases of two suicide bomb blasts after they were arrested on the charges of possessing hand grenades and suicide bomber jacket.
He further told the court that police obtained the permission from the District Sessions Judge Islamabad for the identification parade of the two brothers in Central jail Adiala but the report submitted by a magistrate stated that the parade was conducted in Faisalabad in violation of the court orders.
The counsel added that the evidence against his clients were only two police witnesses who during identification parade said that they saw them present on the occasion of suicide site bomb blasts.
The lawyer further said that the two brothers were last produced in the court on September 5 and were later shifted to Faisalabad without the information of the court and had not been produced despite repeated notices of the court to superintendent Adiala jail and DSP Abpara circle and a contempt of court proceeding was pending in the court for not complying with court orders in the same case.
He maintained that no medical examination of the arrested brothers had been carried out in spite of clear court orders in this regard.
Defending police stance, the SHO Aabpara police station told that the four suspects had confessed to the police their involvement in the bomb blasts and their remand was needed to complete investigation.
The judge setting aside the contentions of defence counsel said that further investigations would determine whether they were guilty or innocent and handed them over to capital police for three days.
Police in their submission to the court said that the physical custody of Fasihullah and Faisal Mushtaq was wanted in a case registered with Aabpara police about the suicide bomb blast in Aabpara Market on July 27 killing 14 people and the custody of Imdad Ullah and Qasim was wanted in a case registered with Margalla police station about the suicide bomb blast near district court on the occasion of address of the then suspended Chief Justice to lawyers on July 17 which claimed life of 17 people.
Police earlier claimed to have arrested Fasihullah a resident of Dera Ismail Khan and two brothers, Faisal Mushtaq and Qasim Mushtaq residents of Kotli Sattian from the area of Police Station (PS) Barakahu and three different FIRs under section 3 and 4 of Explosive Act of Pakistan Penal Code was registered with the PS on August 22
On the other hand the father of the two brother said that his younger son Qasim was arrested from his house in the area of Shehzad Town police on August 9 and his elder son Faisal Mushtaq was picked up from the house of his maternal uncle in Wah cantt on August 1 and a kidnapping report was registered with the respective police stations.
He said that he came to know about the whereabouts of his sons on August 22 when he saw on television the government claiming to have arrested suspected suicide bombers.
The other two asserted that they were picked up from Raja Bazaar in Rawalpindi on August 9 when Fasihullah came to Imdad to obtain some money.
The four men told the reporters present there that Nasir Abbasi was tortured to death because when they were taken to his cell Nasir was found lying on his bed and the ceiling fan was on. They alleged that here were torture marks on his body.
It is pertinent to mention here that there was no lawyer to represent two other suspects Fasihullah and Imdad Ullah.
Source: The Nation
Date:10/9/2007
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