{"id":41676,"date":"2018-01-03T15:21:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-03T10:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41676"},"modified":"2022-02-26T13:08:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T08:08:41","slug":"atc-rejects-bholas-bail-plea-in-baldia-factory-inferno-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=41676","title":{"rendered":"ATC rejects Bhola\u2019s bail plea in Baldia factory inferno case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KARACHI Jan 3 (TNS):<\/strong> An anti-terrorism court on Wednesday dismissed a bail application of Abdul Rehman alias Bhola, a former sector-in-charge of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), in the Baldia factory fire case.<\/p>\n<p>Bhola, a key suspect in the case pertaining to a deadly fire that swept through a garment factory in 2012, had confessed to his involvement in the felony.<br \/>buy vardenafil free viagra online <a href=\"https:\/\/pridedentaloffice.com\/wp-content\/languages\/en\/vardenafil-free-viagra.html\">pridedentaloffice.com\/wp-content\/languages\/en\/vardenafil-free-viagra.html<\/a> no prescription<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Of late, the suspect through his lawyer moved an application in the court, informing that he did not give any such confessional statement under Section 164 of the Criminal Procedure Code.<\/p>\n<p>He submitted that the statement was gleaned under duress and requested the court to allow his application seeking to withdraw the confession.<\/p>\n<p>Bhola was arrested in Bangkok through Interpol and was brought back home in December last year. The suspect had recorded the confession before judicial magistrate Abid Ali Lakho.<\/p>\n<p>He confessed that he with Zubair, alias Charya, set the factory ablaze on the instructions of then chief of the MQM organizing committee Hammad Siddiqui after the factory owners declined to pay the protection money.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 250 people burnt to death after a horrific blaze erupted in the factory in September 2012. The government formed a JIT to thoroughly investigate the incident, which had later made startling revelations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fire that had engulfed the factory was an outcome of a pre-planned scheme and that it was no accident,\u201d revealed the JIT report. \u201cThe factory was set ablaze over non-payment of Bhatta \u2013 protection money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The JIT report stated that MQM sector in-charge Rehman alias Bhola and Hammad Siddiqui had demanded Rs 200 million extortion from owners of the factory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI Jan 3 (TNS): An anti-terrorism court on Wednesday dismissed a bail application of Abdul Rehman alias Bhola, a former sector-in-charge of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), in the Baldia factory fire case. Bhola, a key suspect in the case pertaining to a deadly fire that swept through a garment factory in 2012, had confessed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,23],"tags":[145,589],"class_list":["post-41676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-karachi","category-national","tag-karachi","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41676"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103255,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41676\/revisions\/103255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}