ISLAMABAD: Terror suspects in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa often succeed in securing bail from courts due to the failure of law-enforcement agencies to produce evidence, said legal experts.
A few weeks ago, Peshawar High Court Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan observed that the court had directed the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government time and again to constitute a high-level team to probe cases of terror suspects as they are being freed on bail for lack of evidence and improper inquiry.
On August 7, the court granted bail to a suspect charged with a bomb attack on an election office of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf candidate Jehanzeb Khan before the general election in PK-8, Peshawar constituency and planting another bomb near the election office of Arbab Akbar Hayat of the PML-N, now a member of the provincial assembly.
Justice Khan issued release order of suspect Matiur Rehman, with an observation that police failed to produce evidence against the accused within three months after his arrest.
He granted a petition and directed the petitioner to submit two sureties worth Rs200,000 each. On July 10, 2013, Justice Khan freed suspects Tamheedullah and Sarfaraz on bail. He directed additional inspector general for investigation and capital city police officer to form a committee of investigators to probe the case. Officials of Chamkani Police Station on June 7, 2013 arrested two suspects and charged them with possessing 3,000kg of potassium chloride used in bomb making. internews
