KARACHI: Police informed a judicial magistrate on Monday that the relevant section of the antiterror law had been invoked against a police party in the murder case of a young man in a fake encounter.

Assistant sub-inspector Tariq Khan along with constables Mohammad Shaukat, Akbar Khan and Abdul Waheed have been booked for allegedly killing 27-year-old Maqsood, who was travelling in a rickshaw, and injuring rickshaw driver at Sharea Faisal in January during an alleged shootout with bandits.

A deputy superintendent of police through a report informed a judicial magistrate (East) that since the incidenthadcreated terrorandinsecurity among the public, Section 7 of AntiTerrorism Act, 1997 has been incorporated in the case.

The DSP in his report further said that the police high-ups had ordered a reinvestigation in a connected case lodged against the alleged bandits All Eldain and Babar Ali, who were allegedly involved in the shootout with police on the day of the incident.

The DSP maintained that after examining the evidence, facts and circumstances of both cases, he would file final investigation report in the present case against the policemen.

It may be recalled that the police had filed an interim charge before the magistrate on March 24, in which ASI Tariq was named as the main suspect for killing Magsood and wounding his rickshaw driver friend Abdul Rauf, while policemen Akbar and Waheed were charge sheeted for not adopting proper strategy to arrest the bandits and trying to conceal the facts about the killing of young Maqsood.

The interim report further said that ASI Tariq and Akbar were armed and they did not adopt proper strategy to apprehend the bandits, adding that the ASI`s firing had lef t Maqsood dead and his friend wounded and during the investigation the police party had also deliberately tried to screen the facts in order to save themselves.

But, the report also maintained that Babar and Eidain were professional criminals and had a history of such activities in Punjab.

However, constable Shaukat has not been named as a suspect in the interimcharge sheet for what the police claimed was lack of evidence.

Initially, police had lodged a case against alleged bandits and claimed that the victim was actually killed by the bandits who attacked the police.

Moreover, police had also filed a charge sheet against both suspects before an antiterrorism court.

However, a new FIR was registered on the complaint of Magsood`s father on a court order in which he maintained that the police party was involved in the murder, not the bandits. Thereafter, the reinvestigation of the case was ordered.

Iranian fishermen A judicial magistrate sentenced on Monday 11 Iranian fishermen for a period they have already spent in detention and directed the authorities concerned to make arrangements for their repatriation.

The court convicted the fishermen after they entered a guilty plea when judicial magistrate (West) Salman Amjad Siddiqui visited the district jail Malir to conduct the trial.

The magistrate also directed the jail authorities to approach the department concerned to make arrangements for their repatriation.

The Maritime Security Agency had detained the fishermen and seized their fishing boats after finding them Eshing inside Pakistani territorial waters in the Arabian Sea in February.

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

Two get 10 years term An accountability court on Monday awarded 10-year imprisonment to two men, including an employee of the National Bank of Pakistan, in a corruption reference.

The court found Abdul Jabbar, a cashier at Qasim International Cargo Terminal Booth, and Nasir Murad, head of a shipping firm, involved in misappropriating Rs208 million in the head of custom collection at NBP Port Qasim branch.

The judge also imposed a fine equal to misappropriated amount upon both convicts and in case of default they would have to undergo an additional two years in prison.

They were arrested in 2015 and the National Accountability Bureau had filed a reference against them.