Corps Commander motorcade attack case: 10 Jundullah men to be indicted on September 4

An Anti-Terrorism Court in Karachi on Wednesday fixed September 4, 2004, for indictment against 10 activists of Jundullah in Corps Commander motorcade attack case.
ATC judge Feroz Mehmood Bhatti on Wednesday initiated proceeding in Central Jail, Karachi, after issuance of jail trial notification by Sindh Home Department stating terrorism cases against Jundullah men be tried in Central Jail, Karachi.
Copies of the statements of prosecution witnesses in the case were supplied to defence counsel.
Attur Rehman alias Ibrahim, Shahzad Ahmed Bajwa, Yaqoob Saeed, Uzair Ahmed, Shoaib Siddiqui, Danish Inam, Najeebullah, Khurrum Saifullah, Shahzad Mukhtar and Khalid Rao are charged with attacking motorcade of Corps Commander of Karachi, Lieutenant General Ahsan Saleem Hayat, on June 10, 2004, in Clifton area resulting in ten people killed, including six army personnel and three policemen, and ten others injured.
They were booked under section 302,324,404,34 PPC with section 7 of Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 section 3,4 and 5 of Explosives Act.
Adnan Shah alias Tipu, Muhammad Qasim, Maaz, Shahab, Bilal, Tayab, Hammad and Fasih have been declared absconders in the case.
Meanwhile, the same court put off the hearing of other six cases against Jundullah activists till September 30, 2004.
In these cases, police accused them of killing five policemen at Gulistan-e-Johar police station, Karachi, engineering two car bomb blasts near gate of PACC at Fatima Jinnah Road Karachi, throwing hand-grenade in front of Pakistan Bible Society in Saddar area and planting a bomb in Suzuki hi-roof, attacking on Ranger's mobile van attack in Ferozabad area Karachi, car bomb blast at car parking area of Marina Club Karachi on April 10, 2004, and killing of two policemen Shaukat Ali and Nawab Ali in Saudabad area Karachi.
Khalid Khan Urshi, Mustufa Memon, Adnan Memon, Tajamul Lodhi, advocates are representing the defence side while Special Public Prosecutors Iqtedar Ali Hashmi and Maula Bux Bhatti represented the State.