An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Monday granted bails to three employees of Fisherman Co-operative Society (FCS) who were accused of running an organised extortion network and funding gangsters and separatist militants. Saeed Baloch, the general secretary of the FCS employees union who also belong to Pakistan Fisher-folk Forum and his colleagues Mahar Bukhsh and Dil Murad had been arrested by the Rangers over their alleged involvement in providing financial aid to Lyari gangsters and separatist militants of Balochistan.

The three accused had filed the bail pleas before the trial court on which the court granted them bails after hearing the arguments from both sides. The ATC granted bails against a surety of Rs 5,00,000 for each of them. According to the prosecution, the suspects during interrogation confessed to extort money from traders and other people at the Fisheries and also to fund militants belonging to Lyari gang war and a Balochistan militant group.