Three policemen's bail pleas dismissed in schoolboy murder case.

KARACHI -- An antiterrorism court on Saturday dismissed bail applications of three policemen in a case pertaining to killing of a teenage schoolboy, who was dubbed militant in an alleged 'staged' shoot-out.

The then Sachal SHO Ismail Lashari, Inspector Shaikh Muhammad Shoaib, alias Shoaib Shooter, ASIs Mukhtiar Ali Mangi and Ghulam Shabbir and constable Muhammad Khalid Bhatti have been booked for allegedly killing 17-year-old Anisur Rehman Soomro in a fake encounter and declaring the victim a Taliban militant in June 2014.

When the matter came up before the ATC-II recently, the judge pronounced his judgement on the applications seeking confirmation of pre-arrest bail granted earlier to three undertrial police officials Mukhtiar Ali, Ghulam Shabbir and Khalid Bhatti.

The judge rejected and dismissed their pleas observing that the same lacked merits for confirmation of the pre-arrest bail of the suspects at the present stage of the case.

The judge ordered arrest of the three undertrial policemen and sent them to the central prison directing its superintendent to produce them on the next date of hearing. The matter was fixed for indictment of all the five suspects on Oct 31.

Earlier, special public prosecutor Ali Raza Abbasi opposed the pleas for bail confirmation arguing that the applicants themselves were police officials, who allegedly got involved in the heinous offence like killing a teenager and falsely showing him a Taliban militant.

In the bail pleas, defence counsel Abdul Ali Alana argued that the applicants would not abscond from the court if their interim bail was confirmed and pleaded to confirm their interim bail.

Two former inspectors Lashari and...