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Police charge sheet blames Gul Plaza management for deadly fire

From Dawn · () English

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  • Police submitted a new charge sheet accusing Gul Plaza management of negligence in the fire that killed at least 73 people and destroyed more than 1,100 shops.
  • The document names four people for trial, including the owner of an artificial flower shop and three members of the Gul Plaza Traders Association.
  • A previous charge sheet was rejected after a magistrate found that investigators had not conducted a thorough and satisfactory probe.

Police have blamed Gul Plaza’s building management for “negligence” in a new charge sheet submitted to the South judicial magistrate in Karachi.

The fire broke out at the mall on the night of January 17 and took nearly two days to extinguish completely. It killed at least 73 people and left more than 1,100 shops in ruins.

A previous charge sheet, submitted in July, named six accused, including 11-year-old Huzaifa. A judicial magistrate rejected that document, saying the investigating officer had not carried out a thorough and satisfactory investigation.

The new charge sheet, dated September 3 and submitted by Nabi Bux police, names four of the six people as accused who should face trial. They are Huzaifa’s father, Naimatullah, who owned an artificial flower shop; Gul Plaza Traders Association President Tanveer Pasta; and association members Ammar Ismail and Muhammad Ramzan.

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Originally published by Dawn in English. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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