PESHAWAR: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Monday fixed April 28 for indictment of accused persons in the murder case of a medical student Asma Rani, who was shot dead for what her relatives said rejecting a marriage proposal.
The ATC-1 judge heard the preliminary hearing in the murder case after it was transferred to Peshawar on the Peshawar High Court directives for security concerns expressed by the victim’s family members.
The police produced all the three arrested accused including Mujahid Afridi, Shah Zeb and Sadiqullah in the court. During hearing, the public prosecutor argued that all the accused were charged in the murder of a medical student Asma Rani, 3rd year student of Abbottabad Medical College after she refused marriage proposal of the principal accused Mujahid Afridi.
After hearing arguments, the court fixed April 28 for framing charge against the accused persons in the case. It asked the police to produce them in the court. Shah Zeb, one of the accused, has also filed application in the ATC for his release on bail in the case.
The Peshawar High Court on April 6, issued order for transfer trial of the case from ATC Kohat to ATC Peshawar after lawyers for the complainant submitted that close relatives of the accused were influential people including the district president of
the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, the local MNA, and some practicing lawyers in Kohat.
“The complainant party/petitioner used all resources to engage a local lawyer for pleading the murder case of Asma Rani in Kohat, but no one accepted the brief of the case,” it was stated in the application by Muhammad Irfan, brother of Asma Rani.
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