KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Thursday indicted a leader of the Muttahida Qaumi MovementLondon in explosives and illicit weapons cases.

Ashraf Noor was arrested on Jan 3 for allegedly carrying two hand grenades and unlicensed weapons in the jurisdiction of the Nabi Bux police station.

The judge of ATC-X summoned prosecution witnesses with the direction to record their evidence on March 11 after the defendant pleaded not guilty to the charges against him and opted to contest the two cases.

The cases were registered against him under Sections 4/5 of the Explosive Substances Act, 1908 and Section 23(1)(a) of Sindh Arms Act, 2013 read with Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997.

Meanwhile, the same court allowed an investigating officer to grill the MQM-London leader on the premises of central prison in two other cases.The IO moved an application seeking permission to interrogate the detained leader in the two cases pertaining to an anti-state speech of the party founder and attack on media houses.

Final report in graft case sought An anti-corruption court on Thursday directed an investigating officer to complete probe against a senior superintendent of police in a graft case and submit a final investigation report.

SSP retired Capt Chaudhry Mohammad Asad Ali has been booked for allegedly taking a bribe from a complainant, Feroze Ahmed, for releasing his brother-in-law in October 2015.

At a previous hearing, the IO had filed an interim report in which he charge-sheeted the SSP citing that the statements of witnesses and call record data of the suspect, complainant and others had supported the allegations levelled against the officer. The interim report stated that there were identical com-plaints against the SSP in the past as well.

The IO showed sub-inspector Ijaz alias Rizwan as absconder and sought time for final report.

Indian fishermen remanded to jail A judicial magistrate on Thursday remanded 11 Indian fishermen to prison for fishing in Pakistani waters.

The Maritime Security Agency (MSA) had detained the fishermen and impounded their two boats for illegally fishing inside Pakistani territorial waters and handed them over to the Docks police for legal action.

They were booked under Sections 3/4 of the Foreigners Act and Sections 3/9 of the Fisheries Act at the Docks police station.

The police produced them before a judicial magistrate (west) and the court sent them to jail on 14-day judicial remand, while directing the investigating officer to file investigation report.