Terrorism charges dropped against policemen in murder case

ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Islamabad on Monday dropped terrorism charges against five Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) officials in the Osama Satti murder case.

Satti was killed by ATS personnel after they claimed that he refused to stop his vehicle at a security checkpoint following a robbery report on the wireless in Islamabad. The postmortem report later revealed that Satti was shot several times at close range.

Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Judge Shahrukh Arjumand approved applications filed by the accused against the inclusion of terrorism charges in the first information report (FIR).

The court also rejected a post-arrest bail request of one of the accused.

Subsequently, the court referred the matter to a district and sessions court to try the suspects for the murder.

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