LARKANA, Oct 19: The third judicial magistrate on Thursday sent six accused to the central prison after the market police submitted the final chargesheet.

The six men had been arrested in a raid on October 2 on the charges of preparing fake national identity cards, educational certificates, and arms licences.

The six who have been sent to jail are Mehar Bozdar, Ghulam Umar Soomro, Ghulam Abbas Soomro, Aslam Arain, Aijaz Jagirani, and Khalid Kamboh.

The police in the final chargesheet showed Sachal Tunio and Abdul Qadir as absconders while three others, Ghulam Qadir, Rafique Larik, and Bashir Umrani, who were the employees of the local registration office, had sought bail before arrest in the case.

The names of Khalid Iqbal Memon, Hizbullah Bughio (MNA-elect), and Ayaz Soomro (MPA-elect) had been kept in column 2 by the police. But later police listed their names under bail.

The case has been remanded to the sessions court as it was a session trial.

The next hearing would be held on Oct 30.

The two MNAs and an MPA had already obtained interim bail from the sessions court and on Oct 25 the bail would be confirmed.

On being contacted, Ayaz Soomro told this correspondent that he and his colleagues would move the court and fight a legal battle.

He confirmed that their names had been shifted from column 2 to the accused.

Earlier, the main accused, Mehar Bozdar, in his confessional statement regarding the fake identity cards’ case had disclosed the names of two MNAs and an MPA.

RECOUNTING: The People’s Party Parliamentarians candidate from PS-35 (Larkana-I), Ghulam Sarwar Siyal, in a telegram to the chief election commissioner, has demanded recounting of ballot papers.

He alleged that the concerned returning officer had turned down his application for this purpose.

He alleged that his several polling agents were thrown out of the polling stations by his opponent and he could not receive official results from several polling stations.

Meanwhile, Syed Asghar Hussain Rashdi, a candidate of the National Alliance from NA-206 (Larkana-III), has alleged that his opponents had changed the election results through manipulation.

In a press statement issued on Friday, he said that the results were allegedly changed in Kambar, Gaji Khuhawar, Behram, Bagodaro and Qubo Saeed Khan areas.

Rashdi said that he had sent a telegram to the chief election commissioner, in which he had demanded a judicial inquiry into the matter.

He also thanked the people of his constituency who had voted for him.