KARACHI: An Anti-Terrorism court (ATC) on Tuesday has rejected extension in the bail of nominated Karachi mayor Waseem Akhtar, PSP’s Anis Qaimkhani, MQM’s Rauf Siddiqui, and PPP’s Abdul Qadir Patel in the Dr. Asim terror facilitation case.
The accused were barred from leaving the court room.
According to details, ATC was hearing Dr Asim Case in a corruption inquiry being conducted by the National Accountability Bureau.
Following the verdict, police have arrested the accused inside the court. However, PPP leader Dr. Qadir Patel managed to escape from the court.
The accused were on bail after the court had issued their non-bailable arrest warrants last year, declaring them absconders in a terrorism-related case registered against the former federal minister and PPP leader Dr. Asim Hussain.
While talking to the reports inside the court, MQM’s nominated Karachi mayor Waseem Akhtar said: “We are not being allowed to go out of the court premises”.
Claiming that constitution and law are being ruined in the country, he said, “Today, the court accepted the fake Joint Interrogation Team (JIT) report.”
Dr. Asim Hussain has been booked in several FIRs for allegedly treating and harboring terrorists, gangsters and activists of banned militant outfits at the North Nazimabad and Clifton branches of his hospital at the behest of political leaders.
He has also been indicted in a local accountability court for Rs.460bn corruption.
Waseem Akhtar, Anis Qaimkhani and Rauf Siddiqui were later sent to the Prison.
