Alleged conspiracy to kill CJP: Judgement reserved on plea to register FIR against Musharraf, others

Additional Session Judge Islamabad Muhammad Akmal Khan on Thursday reserved verdict on an application seeking registration of criminal cases against former president Pervez Musharraf and others for conspiring to kill the then deposed chief justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
The plea for registration of criminal cases against the respondents has been made on the basis of publicly made confession by the then chief minister Punjab Chaudhry Pervez Elahi, who in a televised programme had said that, "We have actually saved the chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry from a possible murder attempt at Gujrat during his Lahore visit".
The applicant said that Pervez Elahi's statement indicates that he had prior knowledge of the attack. The applicant has contended that the suicide attack on PPP reception in honour of the deposed chief justice at F-8 Markaz Islamabad might have been planned by the respondents, in which about a dozen PPP workers and security personnel were killed.
Earlier, the SHO Margalla police station presented the record of the incident before the court. After hearing the applicant Chaudhry Muhammad Aslam Advocate and former Protocol Officer to former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and government's counsel, the judge reserved his judgement, expected to be announced today (Friday).
Chaudhry Muhammad had filed an application with the District and Sessions judge Islamabad under section 22-A of the criminal law seeking registration of criminal cases against former president Pervez Musharraf, former interior minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, former Secretary Interior Kamal Shah, former Director General Intelligence Bureau Brigadier Ejaz Shah ((Retd), then Inspector General Police Islamabad, SHO Margalla, for conspiring to kill the chief justice, in which innocent people were killed.