Key Highlights :
1. The court has adjourned the hearing of the MPA Bilal Yasin attack case until May 2.
2. The court has summoned more witnesses for recording their statements on the next date of hearing.
3. The shooters - Majid Hussain and Qasid alias Kashi - were also produced in the court.
4. During the proceedings, the defence counsel submitted that his clients had filed an appeal before the Lahore High Court against insertion of Section 7 of Anti-Terrorist Act in the FIR.
5. He pleaded with the court to adjourn the matter in view of pendency of the appeal.
6. To a court query, the counsel submitted that a new bench had yet not been formed for hearing the appeal.
7. The court remarked that statements of witnesses should continue to be recorded in these circumstances.
8. Subsequently, the court recorded statements of two prosecution witnesses and adjourned further proceedings till May 2.
The Lahore Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Thursday adjourned hearing of MPA Bilal Yasin attack case till May 2. Yasin had earlier pleaded not guilty to charges of attacking a lawmaker and injuring him with a knife at a political rally in Lahore on March 8 last year.
The court had earlier reserved its verdict in the case. The prosecution had urged the court to award capital punishment to Yasin, while the defence had pleaded for a life imprisonment.
Yasin had earlier told the court that he had acted in self-defence after the lawmaker, Shafiq Ahmed, had attacked him with a knife.
Ahmed had earlier told the court that he had been attacked by Yasin and his accomplices with knives and swords.
The lawmaker had sustained injuries on his neck and back in the attack.
