ATC accepts charge sheet against Uzair Baloch

Karachi

An anti-terrorism court accepted on Saturday a charge sheet presented against Lyari gang leader Uzair Baloch for possessing illegal weapons.

Baloch, the chief of the banned People’s Aman Committee, was sent to prison on judicial remand on May 11 over charges of possessing illegal arms including a rocket launcher. Previously he was remanded to the Nabi Bukhsh police for 14 days.

Appearing before the administrative judge of the anti-terrorism courts, Muhammad Farooq Shah, Baloch had himself asked that he be sent to jail on judicial remand and not handed back to police over health grounds.

The administrative judge while accepting the charge-sheet referred the case to the ATC-II for conducting hearings against Baloch.

The charge-sheet showed four Rangers’ officers and seven policemen as prosecution witnesses against Baloch.

It was stated in the charge-sheet that Baloch himself had disclosed the whereabouts of the illegal arms.

Rangers had handed over Baloch to police after questioning him for 90 days in preventive detention under Section 11-EEEE of the Pakistan Protection Act.