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| Court takes up appeals filed by convicts in Musharraf attack case |
| 2008-01-30 |
| An Anti-Terrorism Appellate bench of the High Court of Sindh (SHC) comprising Justice Qaiser Iqbal and Justice Mehmood Alam Rizvi admitted on Tuesday for regular hearing three appeals filed by convicts in the attempt-to-kill General Pervez Musharraf case. Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Hanif and Ashraf Khan, the ameer, naib ameer and finance secretary of the banned Harkatul Mujahideen Al Almi, were convicted and sentenced to serve life imprisonment and were fined Rs 500,000 each by an Anti-Terrorism Court for Karachi division. The appellants maintained that the trial court erred in law and that they were sentenced and convicted in the absence of any material. There was no recovery of explosives, no witness to the placing of the explosives or conspiracy except for the alleged confessional statement of the accused, which is not admissible, the appeals said. The bench, accepting the appeals for regular hearing as matter of right to the accused, also issued notice to the Advocate General Sindh. |
| Posted by:Fred |