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| IHC seeks report from anti-terrorism judge |
| 2013-10-09 |
| [Dawn] The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has sought a report from the special judge of Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) Atiqur Rehman for extending the interim bail of alleged extorters five consecutive times. According to the recommendations of the National Judicial Policy (NJP) 2009, a trial court has to decide the bail plea of an accused within five days. Therefore, the court can only provide one interim-bail and its period cannot be extended beyond five days. However, women are made to be loved, not understood... when Justice Shaukat Aziz Siddiqui of the IHC resumed hearing of the extortion case on Monday, the petitioner's counsel informed the court that the ATC had granted five extensions in the interim bail of alleged extorters Malik Safdar and others. The case is based on a petition filed by Amanullah Sheeno, an Afghan national who used to be a vegetable seller in the Fruit and Vegetable Market of Sector I-11. Allegedly, he had later started collecting extortion sum from traders in the name of protection money. He had approached the court in July alleging that police officials had registered a fake case against him stating that he was involved in collecting extortion. He alleged that the case was registered after he refused to pay extortion to the police. The IHC then ordered the inspector general (IG) of Islamabad police to take action against all extorters in the market. Subsequently, the police locked away Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! Sheeno and his rivals Malik Safdar and Tariq Safdar. Sheeno is currently in the custody of the Sabzi Mandi police, The two brothers, Tariq and Malik, later managed to obtain an interim bail from the ATC, and on Monday, Judge Atiqur Rehman gave them another extension in the bail on Monday. |
| Posted by:Fred |