Daily Times

While hearing the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Dr Imran Farooq’s murder case, an anti-terrorism court on Thursday directed both the prosecution and defense to present their concluding arguments on June 20.

ATC Judge Shahrukh Arjumand rejected the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA’s) request for more time to present evidence collected in Great Britain.

“The court will give its verdict in the case after concluding arguments on June 20,” the judge remarked. In April, accused Khalid Shamim and Mohsin Ali backtracked on their confessional statements recorded before a magistrate in Imran Farooq’s murder case.

Khalid Shamim claimed that he was tortured before being presented in front of the magistrate to record the statement.

The second accused, Mohsin Ali, said he had not given any statement in front of the magistrate at all. He claimed that he was severely tortured, but he had refused to confess.

“I complained to the magistrate about this behaviour, but he just signed on a statement prepared beforehand and stamped it as being my statement,” he said. Both the accused face the charge of murdering Dr Farooq in September 2010 in UK.