From "The News" : Two shot dead on sessions court premises in Lahore
The report from "Daily Times" gives you the background of the animosity between the accused and the lawyer who also seems like a proper villian.Thursday, May 27, 2010 - By Sajid Bashir and Numan Wahab
LAHORE: An accused doctor was killed on Wednesday by a police security guard after he shot dead a lawyer during a scuffle on the premises of the District and Sessions Court.
The deceased lawyer was identified as Rana Mahboob Ali, a resident of Kasur, while the doctor was identified as Hanif Kamran. The gang-rape accused had come to the sessions court for reconciliation with the victim’s lawyer Mahboob Ali in a gang-rape case registered with the Naulakha police station on the complaint of Nazeeran, the mother of victim, on August 14, 2008.
{The following sequence of events almost reads like the script of a bollywood action flick}
The accused, Hanif, and victim Mahboob Ali were sitting in Maqsood Nazmani’s makeshift chamber when they scuffled with each other, after which the accused Dr Hanif opened his shopping bag, took out his pistol and fired three shots at Mahboob, killing him on the spot, while Mukhtar, a librarian at the sessions court, hit a jug on the accused’s head.
After this, due to the head injury, the accused dropped his weapon and ran towards the main wall just next to the chamber. When Mukhtar and another advocate, Qamar, tried to catch the accused, he took out a hand-grenade from his bag and hurled it towards the chamber, seriously injuring Mukhtar, Qamar and Hafiz Ali.
The accused doctor climbed the main wall and activated the second grenade. Meanwhile, a police Constable Saleem, deployed at Bakhshi Khana, fired on the doctor’s chest, who fell down with the grenade on the other side of the wall where the grenade went off, killing the doctor on the spot. Later, a large number of lawyers and litigants gathered on the spot and panic gripped the court premises. Rescue teams rushed the injured to the Services Hospital and the bodies to the city morgue for autopsy.
The bomb disposal squad, during a thorough search, found three more hand-grenades, Russian manufactured, from the accused’s shopping bag. They also collected parts of the exploded grenade for forensic examination and then cleared the spot.
Police recovered two pistols, an international driving licence and a mobile phone from the accused’s custody. Later, the police shifted his body to the city mortuary for autopsy. Talking to mediamen at the sessions courts, acting CCPO Lahore Ch Shafiq Gujjar said it was not a terror attack, rather the result of some old enmity between the victim lawyer and the accused doctor.
Ch Shafiq returned from the spot just after two minutes due to the infuriated lawyers, who they got hold of the police personnel declaring them responsible for the death of their colleague.
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This report from the "Nation" has the pic of the accused lying dead outside the court wall. It is hard to tell if he was indeed shot and that a grenade exploded near him. He just looks dead with no big visible wounds or injury on the outside. BTW the accused in a gang rape case came to court to negotiate with the victim's lawyer and what did he bring to the negotiating table? Two guns and 5 hand grenades. This is a very unique TSPian form of negotiation and will someday become the Phd thesis of some political science student.
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to malign the Islamic Republic of Pakistan .
