SP indicted in wife’s murder case

Karachi

Former SP, Mian Inamullah Jamshed, was on Tuesday indicted by a court for allegedly murdering his wife in June last year; the accused, however, pleaded not guilty.

The court of additional district and sessions judge (South) Sohail Muhammad Leghari fixed May 7 to record statements of prosecution witnesses.

The accused’ bail plea had already been rejected by the trial court while an application seeking his transfer to a ‘B-class’ prison was submitted to the court. The ruling was reserved by the court till it had heard arguments of the defence and prosecution.

The attorney prayed to court to have him transferred owing to his educational credentials. The prosecutor, however, strongly opposed the argument on grounds that he had nonetheless murdered his wife and was also involved in heinous crimes.

Thirty-six-year-old Hina was brought to the Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) on the night of June 31, last year, with bullet wounds. Her family did not bother to register an FIR, it was rather the police officials who booked SP Jamshed in the case over circumstantial evidence of his involvement in the murder.

He was, however, arrested early this year from Mardan by a team of Karachi Defence police station.

SP Jamshed had claimed that his wife got accidentally shot while he was cleaning his licensed pistol and that he was the one who took her to the hospital, where she died.