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| PHC grants bail to two Taliban |
| 2010-12-28 |
| [Pak Daily Times] The Beautiful Downtown Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Monday granted bail to two Taliban, accused of attacking the Mingora cop shoppe and security forces. A single bench, headed by Justice Syed Sajjad Hassan Shah, granted bail to Khairul Rehman alias Nanai and Momin and directed them to furnish two sureties of Rs 500,000 each. The counsel for the petitioners, Luqman and Muhammad Ali, submitted that Mingora Station House Officer (SHO) Johar Rehman on May 10, 2009 charged the two along with Tehreek-e-Taliban Swat chief Fazlullah, front man Mohammedan Khan and 16 others for attacking the cop shoppe and injuring four military personnel. They stated that the prosecution had failed to present even a single eyewitness and produce solid proves against the accused. They also said that the petitioners were jugged on October 14 and did not confess to their crime during their physical remand. Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa ... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central... Additional Advocate General Barrister Waqar and the state counsel also admitted that there were no solid proof against the accused, but they appealed to the bench to release them on heavy bail bonds. Luqman, the counsel for the petitioner, told Daily Times that 20 Taliban were charged in the case, including Fazlullah, Mohammedan Khan and others. The counsel said only the petitioners were jugged in the case as majority of the accused in the case were killed during festivities with the security forces. Earlier, a single bench comprising Justice Ziaur Rehman had observed that investigation by police often resulted in release of the suspects. "Had the police conducted proper investigation in these cases, the suspected snuffies would have been convicted by the courts," he observed. |
| Posted by:Fred |