Rawalpindi:
Judge Syed Amjad Ali Shah, of the Rawalpindi Special Anti -Terrorism Court (ATC), will hold a crucial hearing of fourteen cases of May 9 tomorrow (Saturday).
The hearing intervenes in the wake of the ordinance of the Supreme Court, confirming the trials of the military courts of May 105 accused. The SC has already ordered all ATCs holding trials of May 9 accused of concluding their procedure within four months.
25 additional accused people are expected to be appointed to trial before the military courts. A constitutional petition seeking their transfer to the military could be deposited at any time. The courts were put on hold in anticipation of this.
In all cases on May 9 in the Rawalpindi division – with the exception of those involving the founder of the PTI, Imran Khan and the vice -president Shah Mahmood Qureshi – All the accused are currently on bail.
A total of 14 FIR were recorded by various police stations in the division concerning the events of May 9, but the charges were only submitted after a year and a half.
To date, even the loading sheet of the GHQ attack case remains incomplete. The trials began on the basis of incomplete charges. So far, 73 hearings have taken place, 3 judges have been replaced at ATC and prison trials have been held 15 times.
In the case filed with the railway police station concerning attack and vandalism at Tarnol station, 20 PTI workers were sentenced after pleading guilty. They received six -month -old mandates and fines of 75,000 rupees each.
The load distribution process continues in 12 other cases. An official prison trial continues only in the GHQ attack case, where declarations of 25 of the 119 witnesses were recorded.
However, the defense has not yet contraindicated any witness. Two key witnesses in this case – Mujtaba al -Hasan magistrate and the Riaz sub -inspector – have not appeared in the last three months. Since February 25, the GHQ case trial has been stopped.
Eight suspects in the attack by GHQ Gate 1, a criminal fire from the bus station and the attack on the office of an intelligence agency have already been tried in military courts. Among these, six were sentenced to two, eight and ten years in prison, while two were released after serving a year each.
The convictions were disputed in the Rawalpindi bench of the High Court of Lahore (LHC), but these constitutional petitions have not yet been planned to be audience.
These petitions have deposited more than a year to request the files of the military court, copies of the charges, forms of determining the sentence and summaries of evidence.
Meanwhile, the Lahore police asked an ATC to allow them to perform a polygraphic and photographic test of the Imran Khan founder as part of the May 9 cases.
In this regard, the accusation submitted a request to the ATC, declaring that it is necessary to carry out the test and other exams.
Opposing the request in his preliminary arguments, the lawyer for the lawyer for the founder of the PTI Salman Safdar said that the filing of such a request after two years is an act of bad faith. The court postponed the procedure until May 14.
A division bench of the High Court of Lahore will hear on May 15, eight cations after the arrest filed by Imran Khan in different cases of May 9. (With the contribution of our correspondents to Lahore)
