ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Wednesday maintained the Islamabad High Court’s (IHC) order and rejected the bail plea of Moazzam Ali Khan, the co-accused currently standing trial in Imran Farooq’s murder case.
The division bench of the apex court comprising Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa and Justice Sardar Tariq Masood heard the bail plea filed by Moazzam Ali against the Islamabad High Court (IHC) order.
The bench observed that the co-accused was in contact with the alleged murderer through phone calls before and after Farooq’s murder. It would not be appropriate for the court to interfere at this stage, the bench observed.
During the course of proceedings, Deputy Attorney General Sohail Mahmood informed the court that Moazzam Ali Khan had provided financial assistance to the murderers.
Imran Farooq, 50, a founding member of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), was stabbed and beaten to death in Edgware, northwest London, as he returned home from work on September 16, 2010.
Farooq was a close confidant of MQM chief Altaf Hussain and a senior party leader when he fled the country in 1992, following an operation by security forces launched against the MQM.
He was living in North London after claiming political asylum and had reportedly later become an inactive member of the party, which has also been the focus of a money laundering investigation in the UK.
