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Court rejects plea to add murder, terrorism charges in Karachi's Gul Plaza fire case

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“Court rejects plea to add murder, terrorism charges in Karachi's Gul Plaza fire case”

KARACHI: Rejecting an application seeking the addition of murder and terrorism charges, a judicial magistrate accepted the charge sheet in the Gul Plaza fire case on Wednesday, in which the police blamed the building management’s “negligence”. The deadly inferno, which erupted on the night of January 17 at the shopping mall and took nearly two days to be fully extinguished, had claimed at least 73 lives and left over 1,100 shops in ruins. Judicial Magistrate (South) Aasim Aslam pronounced his…

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