Four suspects Murtaza alias Shakil Mohammad Saqib Farooqui Mohammad and Murad Shah said to be associated with the banned militant outfit Jundullah were arrested in January and booked in four cases pertaining to a series of attacks on Muharram processions in Karachi in .
Four suspects escaped from police custody at the City Courts the same year . Prosecution claimed that three absconding accused were killed in an encounter with the law enforcement agencies . However the trial in the terrorism case remains inconclusive .
The four cases remain shelved in the courts custody since October for want of suspects judicial staffers at the antiterrorism court where the cases are pending trial told Dawn . Legal experts believed that the prolonged suspension of the proceedings in such highprofile cases always benefited the accused party as prosecution witnesses might change their residences or go underground or go under the influence of the prosecution witnesses or go away from the prosecution .
Experts believe that the delay favours the accused parties in such cases always benefits the accused as it is hard for a witness to remember the exact evidence for years to remember evidence for the accused to remember it for years or to maintain the case files and stay in touch with their witnesses .
There is no progress in the cases till the day and the cases remain dormant. There is also a difficult task for the IOs to keep the IOS to maintain and maintain the files and to maintain it. It is difficult to maintain them. There are no progress. There has been no progress on the cases.
There was no progress for the suspects. It has no progress to the accused. There were no progress from the accused persons. There have been no evidence of the suspects’s arrest of the suspected militants.
