Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi bench has ordered to stop the implementation on the verdict announced by military court in General Head Quarter (GHQ) attack case.
LHC bench comprising of Justice Sagheer Ahmed heard the appeals on
Monday, filed by the convicted accused, stating that the military court
did not provide them the copies of decision.
LHC after receiving the GHQ stance in this regard has directed to the counsels for accused persons to submit their reply.
Deputy Attorney General appeared before the court and stated that
according to army rules the copies of decision cannot be provided to
the accused persons.
After the reply of GHQ the court directed to the counsels for applicants that they should submit their reply in this regard.
It is worth mentioning here that during last month of August 2011,
Field Marshal Court headed by a Brigadier announced the death sentence
to the former troop of Medical corpse Aqeel Ahmed alias Dr. Usman, life
imprisonment to Imran Siddique, Muhammd Usman, khalique-ur-Rehman, and
Wajid Ali; whereas the military court awarded the seven and eight years
imprisonment to Tahir Shafique and Muhammad Adnan respectively.
There was an allegation on these accused that they were aware of the
attack on GHQ building and were the facilitator to main accused Aqeel
Ahmed.
It is worth mentioning here that on October 10, 2010 attack on GHQ
claimed 11 lives of troops and 09 militants also were killed in counter
attack of Army. The main accuse Aqeel Ahmed alias Dr. usman was
arrested when he injured in counter attack. The military court heard
case for five months and awarded the sentence to the accused persons. SANA
