ATC reserves verdict to try Hamza murder accused under juvenile act

KARACHI: The Anti-Terrorism Court in Karachi reserved its verdict on Saturday regarding a plea to try the accused in the Hamza Ahmed murder under the juvenile act, till the 14th of September.

Hamza Ahmed was gunned down in the city’s posh Defence Housing Authority (DHA) in April 2013 over a disagreement with another teenager over a girl.

According to sources, Hamza got into a fight with Shoaib Naveed and the two had met to resolve their differences outside a café when allegedly Hamza slapped Shoaib and was then gunned down by the latter’s gunman.

The actual shooter in the case identified as Amal Rahman is still at large.

Later in May 2013 a medical board headed by Prof Farhat Mirza, head of forensic medicine at the Dow University of Health Sciences, was tasked to determine the suspect’s age.

Hamza’s murder was the second shooting in DHA after the high-profile murder case of a university student Shahzeb Khan who was gunned down in cold blood on 25th December 2012 by Shahrukh Jatoi who was later sentenced to death by the ATC.