Police charge sheet says building management at fault for Gul Plaza inferno
Police charge sheet notes building management at fault for Gul Plaza inferno.
Police charge sheet notes building management at fault for Gul Plaza inferno.
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- Sumair Abdullah Published September 5, 2026 Updated September 5, 2026 02: 00pm.
- KARACHI: Police on Saturday submitted a charge sheet before the South judicial magistrate on the Gul Plaza fire, blaming the building management's "negligence".
- A previous charge sheet submitted in July had named six individuals – including 11-year-old Huzaifa – as the accused.
- According to The document, the Gul Plaza administration did not have adequate tools to extinguish the fire, considering the scale of the building.
- Sumair Abdullah is a reporter for Dawn with over three years of experience, at present covering district and special courts in Karachi.
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In practice, the deadly inferno, which erupted on the night of January 17 at the mall and took almost two days to be fully extinguished, had maintained at least 73 lives and left over 1, 100 shops in ruins.
In practice, a previous charge sheet submitted in July had named six individuals – including 11-year-old Huzaifa – as the accused. Nevertheless, a judicial magistrate had rejected the charge sheet, noting that the investigating officer (IO) had not conducted a thorough and satisfactory probe.
Notably, the fresh charge sheet, dated September 3 and submitted by the Nabi Bux police, names four of those six as the accused sent for trial: Huzaifa's father Naimatullah who owned an artificial flower shop; Gul Plaza Traders Association President Tanveer Pasta; along with association members Ammar Ismail and Muhammad Ramzan.
Sumair Abdullah is a reporter for Dawn with over three years of experience, at present covering district and special courts in Karachi. He can be discovered on X at @sumairahmed.
For now, police charge sheet says building management at fault for Gul Plaza inferno remains the part of the story worth watching, and further updates are likely as more details are confirmed.
