Two men, woman remanded to police in murder case

Three suspected killers of a young man were remanded to the police for interrogation. Two men, Arif Nawabzad and Shahrukh, and a woman, Zartaj Bibi, were produced before a judicial magistrate of District West on Saturday.

The investigation officer (IO) told the court that the accused had developed a personal enmity with the victim, Pervez. The three allegedly hatched a criminal conspiracy and stabbed him to death with a sharp-edged knife.

The IO said that the suspects had killed Pervez out of jealousy because he was very intelligent and good at studying in Ittehad Town. The case against the killers was lodged by the mother of the deceased. She accused them of killing her son brutally. The IO prayed to the court to grant 14-day physical remand of the suspects. The court allowed the plea.

Sharjeel Memon case

The accountability court hearing a corruption reference against former Sindh information minister Sharjeel Inam Memon and others fixed April 3 to announce its ruling on the framing of charges against a co-accused under an amended charge sheet.

An attorney for the accused said that a son of former NAB chairman Qamar Zaman Chaudhry had been running the business of advertisement and NAB had implicated his clients to save the skin of the son of the ex-chairman.

The applicant asked the court to indict the co-accused under an amended charge sheet. The court fixed April 3 to announce its order on the plea.

Memon and others are charged with the commission of corruption of more than Rs5.76 billion. After attending the court’s proceedings, Memon talked to journalists informally. He said he agreed with the order the chief justice of Pakistan for setting up a new medical board in his case.

In reply to a question, he said everyone was well aware of the role of NAB in Punjab and Sindh. He expressed his felicitation over the PSL final match in Karachi, saying it was a matter of satisfaction that the match was being held in Karachi.