KARACHI, May 17: An anti-terrorism court dismissed a bail application of the widow of a suspected Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan leader in a kidnapping for ransom case.

Sabiha Karim, the widow of Shahid Khan alias Qari, was booked in the case for extending support to the suspected TTP leader and his two accomplices in the kidnapping of an industrialist, Riaz Chinoy. All the three suspects were killed in a shootout with police during a raid on a house in Allahwala Town near Korangi on Dec 5, 2011.

Judge Bashir Ahmed Khoso of the ATC-I, who is conducting the trial, dismissed the plea after hearing both sides.

Earlier, the accused through her counsel had moved the application for bail on humanitarian grounds citing that she had a seven-month-old child.

Opposing the plea, public prosecutor Abdul Maroof argued that the applicant had already confessed her guilt before a magistrate. He added that anti-terror laws had no provision for the grant of bail merely on the ground that the accused had an infant.

SHO given five days to comply with court order

A sessions court granted five days to an SHO on Thursday to comply with a court order regarding registration of a case.

Taking up a contempt of court application for hearing, the additional district and sessions judge (south), Abdul Razzaq, allowed the plea of the SHO of the Chakiwara police station to grant him time and directed him to submit the compliance report till May 22.

The SHO along with the area SP turned up on Thursday and informed the court that he had recently been appointed on the post and requested the court to grant him some time because he had been wounded during a police operation in Lyari and was under treatment.

A woman had filed a contempt plea, stating that on April 9 the court directed the SHO to record her statement and register an FIR against some accused, including PPP MNA Nabeel Gobal and SP Chaudhry Aslam, if the information of the applicant constituted any cognizable offence.

However, the applicant said that she approached the police station, but the SHO refused to record her statement and register a case, which, she contended, amounted to contempt of court.

Earlier, the applicant in her application moved under Section 22-A (powers of justices of the peace) of the criminal procedure code (CrPC) contended that her nephew Sakhiullah was picked up by a police party under the supervision of SP Aslam Khan.

The applicant claimed that Sakhiullah was subjected to torture and killed on the behest Interior Minister Rehman Malik and MNA Nabeel Gabol.

However, in its April 9 order the court directed the police not book Mr Malik in connection with the present incident.