KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court allowed the investigating
officer to interrogate Muttahida Qaumi Movement’s lawmaker Rauf
Siddiqui in regard to the allegations leveled against him for having received money to withdraw the case against the owners of ill-fated garment
factory.
The investigating
officer submitted a supplementary charge-sheet before the judge of the anti-terrorism court-II. It accepted the charge-sheet while allowing the investigating
officer to interrogate Rauf
Siddiqui with regard to his alleged involvement in the case.
The prosecution
informed the judge that the interior secretary had also written a letter to the Interpol for issuance of red warrants for the arrest of absconding MQM Organising Committee Head, Hammad
Siddiqui and submitted its copy in the court.
According to the charge-sheet, Bhola confessed during interrogation that he along with suspect Zubair alias Charya set the
factory ablaze using chemicals after its owners failed to pay protection money. He admitted that he had done all this on the instr
uctions of Hammad
Siddiqui to teach the
factory owners a lesson for failing to pay the demanded extortion money.
In his confessional statement before a magisterial court on Dec 22, Bhola stated that after the incident Rauf
Siddiqui allegedly got a case registered against the owners of the ill-fated industrial unit. Later he came to know about Rauf
Siddiqui and Hammad
Siddiqui having received Rs 40 to 50 million from the
factory owners to turn down the case against them.
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