CTD gets forensic report as another LHC judge targeted with obnoxious letter
Pakistan
SC and IHC judges also had received the same letters
- The number of such letters sent to LHC judges has now risen to six
- Forensic report reveals that the letters sent to LHC judges do not contain anthrax
LAHORE (Dunya News) - Lahore High Court's (LHC) Justice Ali Baqir Najafi has also received a suspicious letter, prompting the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) and police to reach the LHC premises for an investigation.
The number of such letters sent to LHC judges has now risen to six following Justice Najafi's incident.
In a concerning escalation, four Supreme Court judges, including Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa, have also been targeted with threatening letters. Apex court's Justice Athar Minallah, Justice Jamal Mandokhel, and Justice Aminuddin are among those who received the ominous correspondence.
Read more: CJP Isa among three SC judges also receive threatening letters
Reports indicated that these letters, which arrived at the apex court on April 4, contained toxic powder and menacing imagery. The letters have been handed over to the CTD for investigation.
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The initial wave of threatening letters began with Islamabad High Court's Chief Justice Aamer Farooq, who along with eight other judges, received similar correspondence containing suspicious powder and threatening symbols.
FORENSIC REPORT
Meanwhile, the Counter Terrorism Department of the police has received forensic report of the powder in the letters sent to the judges of the superior courts.
According to a report, the letters sent to the LHC judges did not contain anthrax, but “carbohydrates having traces of arsenic”. Initial investigations revealed that the arsenic was also not in its pure form.
Earlier, it was suspected that the suspicious powder in the envelopes was “anthrax”, a harmful substance that can spread throughout the body and cause severe illness and even death, if left untreated.
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Investigators in the capital, in the meanwhile, found that the letters sent to the apex and Islamabad High Court judges were dispatched from the Rawalpindi General Post Office. However, the “suspects” could not be found as there were no CCTV cameras installed on the premises.
