An anti-terrorism court on Monday remanded two suspects, including the son of a former police officer, in police custody in a case pertaining to an assault on an official of the Federal Board of Revenue (FBR).
Agha Shaheer Khan was booked by the Clifton police for shooting at and injuring FBR inspector Shah Mir Lashari after a road accident in Clifton last month. The investigation officer produced the key suspect, Shaheer, and Najeebullah Bhutto, who helped hide his vehicle after the incident, before the administrative judge of anti-terrorism courts (ATCs) and sought their physical remand.
He stated that Shaheer, along with his gunman, assaulted the FBR officer and his brother Shahzeb Khan by hitting them with the butts of a Kalashnikov and a pistol, adding that he later, with the intention to kill, opened fire on Lashari with a pistol causing serious gunshot injuries.
The IO stated that the suspect later removed a fake police number plate from his vehicle and travelled to Shikarpur and had the vehicle hidden through his employees Taufeeq Soomro and Bhutto.
He said the suspect was required to be interrogated for recovery of the pistol and Kalashnikov used in the crime, the fake police number plate and arrest of his gunman. He, therefore, requested the judge to hand the suspects over to the police on physical remand until May 17.
However, the judge remanded the suspect in police custody until May 11 and directed the IO to produce them upon completion of the remand. Initially, an FIR was lodged against Shaher and his gunman on the complaint of Shahzeb Khan under the Sections 324 (attempt to murder), 337-A(i) (Shajjah) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code. Later sections 170 (personating a public servant), 171 (wearing garb or carrying token used by public servant with fraudulent intent), 427 (mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees), 109 (abetment) and 201 (causing disappearance of evidence of offence, or giving false information to screen offender) of the PPC, along the Section 7 (punishment for acts of terrorism) of the Anti-Terrorism Act were added to the case.
