ABBOTTABAD: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Tuesday indicted 57 suspects in the Mashal Khan murder case and rejected the bail pleas of 17 accused in the case.
Justice Fazal Subhan of ATC Abbottabad rejected the bail of the accused after hearing arguments from both sides.
The judge ordered to shift the case to Central Jail Haripur, where the hearings will now take place on a day-to-day basis. The case has been shifted in fear of deterioration of law and order.
Mashal’s father Iqbal Khan and a large number of people from Mardan were also present during the hearing.
Mashal Khan, a journalism student at Abdul Wali Khan University in Mardan, was brutally killed by a violent mob on April 13, which had accused him of blasphemy.
Police registered cases under sections 148-422-302-324-143 against the arrested accused in the case, including Sajid Ali, Wajid Malang, Asif Ali, Waleed Ayub, Syed Wajid Ali, Mujeeb Ullah, Sajjad Ali, Urfanullah, Nasrullah, Syed Abbas, Aziz Khan, Atif Munsif, Fazeelat Jan, Muhammad Asif Khan, Sahibzada Muhammad Sohaib, Anas Ali, Zeeshan Khan and others.
