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5 alleged RAW agents acquitted due lack of evidence by ATC court

5 alleged RAW agents acquitted due lack of evidence by ATC court

*KARACHI:* An anti-terrorism court on Wednesday acquitted five allegedagents of the Indian spy agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), for wantof evidence, reported by a *local English daily.*link>

According to the publication, the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) hadclaimed to have arrested Muhammad Shafiq Khan alias Pappu, an employee ofthe Karachi Water and Sewerage Board, Abdul Jabbar alias Zafar Tension,Mohsin Khan alias Kashif, Khalid Aman alias Dad and Adil Ansari in August2015 in Gulistan-i-Jauhar for apparently working for the Indian spy agencyRAW, and being involved in anti-state activities.

The judge of ATC-I, after recording evidence of witnesses and concludingarguments from both sides, absolved the accused persons of all charges dueto lack of sufficient evidence.

A confessional statement of the accused Khalid Aman under Section 164 ofthe Criminal Procedure Code (CPC) in 2015 was recorded by a judicialmagistrate.