Anti Terrorism Court Adjourns MQM Leader' Murder Case Hearing Till January 1

The prosecution in a case pertaining to murder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Imran Farooq sought adjournment as it disclosed in the ATC that revision against the rejection of plea for calling foreign witnesses has been filed at IHC and decision was awaited in such.

ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 13th Dec, 2018 ) :The prosecution in a case pertaining to murder of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Imran Farooq sought adjournment as it disclosed in the ATC that revision against the rejection of plea for calling foreign witnesses has been filed at IHC and decision was awaited in such.

The Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) had already rejected the plea for calling foreign witnesses against which the prosecution had filed a revision at Islamabad High Court (IHC) also seeking a stay order against the proceeding at ATC.

The ATC judge Shahrukh Arjumand in the previous hearing had ordered the prosecution for closing the evidence against which the prosecution sought adjournment till the decision of revision petition at IHC.

Three accused Khalid Shamim, Syed Mohsin Ali and Moazzam Ali had been indicted in the case while four others were declared proclaimed offenders.

Khalid Shamim and Syed Mohsin Ali have already recorded their confessional statements before a magistrate, alleging that the slain MQM leader was killed because he was a "potent threat to the leadership of MQM".

Shamim confessed that Farooq's murder was allegedly a 'birthday gift' for the MQM founder, while Syed Mohsin stated that he took part in the crime because he was promised a position in the MQM's London Secretariat.

Imran Farooq was murdered outside his house in London on September 16, 2010.

The court adjourned the hearing till January 1, 2019.