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  • The Prosecutions strong case against (alias) Manjit Singh

    I tell you, this is strong. We have witnesses who saw him planting the bombs.

    This should seal the deal and any doubts on what sort of a person Manjit Singh aka Sarabjit Singh is. We have witnesses, corroboration of witnesses, we have a confession, we have a confession about how he manufactured the bombs. Its all over man. He's not getting off.

    Hang the ugly schmuck!

    http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/index.html

    By Ansar Abbasi

    ISLAMABAD: Sarabjit Singh alias Manjeet Singh's conviction by Pakistani courts is not part of a design to send a spy from an enemy country to the gallows but a consequence of a detailed account of open judicial process as followed in the world over including India.

    Detailed study of the voluminous court documents pertaining to the convicted Indian terrorist and spy, Manjeet Singh, clearly show that the man was handed down death sentence by the Pakistani courts on the basis of both official witnesses and the independent civilian eyewitnesses who saw the lately discovered Indian hero bombing three different places to kill 14 innocent and injure several dozens.

    In Chowk Bhatti Gate, Lahore bomb explosion case that involved the killing of nine and injuries to 54, a total of 18 prosecution witnesses appeared before the trial court. They included official witnesses comprising members of intelligence and security agencies, police officials, magistrate, doctors, etc, and the civilian eyewitnesses of the bomb blast.

    A total of 89 prosecution witnesses (PWs) were cited in the list of witnesses but except 18 the prosecution gave others up.

    This case was registered on the complaint of Muhammad Munir, PW2, who told the trial court that on the evening of May 18, 1990 he was going to meet his uncle M Ashiq, who was employee on a van dealing with medicines outside Bhatti Gate near Malik Theatre Cinema, when all of a sudden an explosion took pace and he fell on the ground. On gaining consciousness, he came to know that 6/7 persons had been killed. Munir was not cross examined by the defence.

    According to four eyewitnesses produced before the trial court, Singh came to the Malik Theatre Cinema with a bag in hand and got into the cinema without search while pretending to be a police havildar. He remained in the hall for more than two hours and came out along with the bag. Outside the cinema, he went to a person selling medicines on a van and requested him to keep his bag for sometime so that he could go to pay respects at Data Darbar. The man was reluctant but on Singh's insistence he agreed. Singh put his bag near his van and went towards Data Darbar.

    After sometime, there was a blast that also injured the medicine seller, who besides the chowkidar and gatekeeper of the cinema appeared before the trial court as eyewitnesses and also recognised Singh. Another eyewitness, a vendor, told the court that he also stood near the medicine seller and overheard Singh's conversation with the medicine seller. He said he had heard 'tik, tik' coming out of the bag left by Singh.

    One Abdur Rehman appeared as witness to pointation, in whose presence Singh stated before the police about various bomb blasts. Later Singh led the police party to Malik Theatre Cinema and point out the place where he had planted the bomb. Police officials told the court about what Singh had admitted before them.

    In the Bhawana Bazaar bomb blast case where four persons were killed and 23 injured, a total of 17 PWs were produced before the trial court. According to the statements of the eyewitnesses, Singh was seen with a bag that he left near a 'rehri' (cart) at Bhawana Bazaar, Faisalabad.

    After sometime an explosion occurred leaving people dead and injured. Though one of the eyewitnesses could not identify Singh as the same person leaving the bag, others recognised him. One of these witnesses said that he was at the 'rehri' of juice when Singh in army cut with moustache came there carrying a bag in his hand. Singh ordered a glass of juice and put his bag on the ground.

    The witness said that after taking his juice he left the place but after sometime heard a sound of blast. Some other PWs also endorsed to have seen Singh with a bag that he left besides the juice 'rehri'.

    One Muhammad Yasin, who was running the juice 'rehri', came to the court on wheelchair to record his evidence. Yasin told the court that after Singh had left, he noticed the presence of the bag near the 'rehri'. The bag, he said, contained some iron pieces. He thought somebody had forgotten his bag that remained there but after half an hour an explosion occurred, which also injured him.

    In a bus bomb blast case that killed an eight-year-old child at Nizamabad Chowk, Lahore on July 28, 1990, a total of 11 PWs were produced before the trial court including crew of the bus. According to the witnesses, as soon as the bus (LEM-3252) arrived in Chowk Nizamabad an explosion occurred that completely damaged the vehicle and killed a boy instantly besides injuring others.

    Shaukat Ali, the conductor of the bus that was plying between Railway Station and Ghaziabad, Lahore, told the court that on July 28, 1990 the bus was parked at the Railway Station to lift passengers at 12 noon and there were 20/25 passengers in the bus. A man entered the bus and took a seat. Ali identified Singh, present in the court, as the same man, who then got down the bus on the pretext of buying cigarettes. After its usual stop, the bus left for Ghaziabad and reached Nizamabad Chowk at 12:40pm.

    He said since he was busy with other passengers so he could not notice the absence of Singh. At Nizamabad Chowk, he said, all of a sudden there was an explosion as a result of which he also got injured.

    Later, he said, he gave to police the description of the suspect and said that the suspect had smallpox marks on his face. Seeing Singh in the court, he said, Singh had no smallpox marks on his face but had some marks, which he thought were of smallpox. He stated that at the time of the occurrence the accused was clean shaved but in the court he is having a beard.

    Police witnesses told the trial court Singh admitted before police that he was involved in the bomb blast.

    Singh also took the police party to a latrine where he had prepared the bomb and then led the police where the bus was standing for going to Ghaziabad near Railway Station.
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