While Pakistani police is still investigating his murder, it is widely believed that he was target killed because he had refused to co-operate with authorities for providing false evidence which would incriminate Justice Chaudhry in the wake of the ongoing judicial crisis in Pakistan.
It is pertinent to mention that unknown armed men on Monday gunned down Additional Registrar of Supreme Court Syed Hamad Raza at his residence in G-10/2 in Islamabad, the Capital of Pakistan.
He is regarded as a key witness by lawyers representing Pakistan's suspended chief justice in his fight against President Pervez Musharraf's move to sack him.
Syed Hammad Raza, being the key witness of all this, after 12 May 2007 killings of 40 people in Karachi was going to reveal it to public was eliminated in emergency on 14 May 2007 through agencies with the help of police.
Syed Hammad Raza, an additional registrar of the Supreme Court, was shot at point-blank range by two or three gunmen just before dawn at his home here, police and relatives said.
"He was an important person in our case", Munir Ahmed Malik, a lawyer on suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry's legal team, said.
"He was witness to many things, like the chief justice said in his petition that some files were removed from his chamber on the day he was suspended", the lawyer, Tariq Mehmood, said.
The acting chief justice directed the registrar of the Supreme Court to make arrangements with regard to burial and other matters and prepare a compensation package for the widow and children of the deceased.
Supreme Court's additional registrar Syed Hamad Amjad Raza was shot dead by four men who broke into his house before dawn on Monday.
According to reports, Raza had told family and friends he had been summoned by unidentified investigative agencies "trying to get information about the alleged 'wrongdoing' of the chief justice.
Chief Justice Chaudhry, before he was declared "non-functional", was in the forefront of dealing with complaints to the Supreme Court made by the families of so-called "disappeared".
Last night's developments came as a full bench of the Supreme Court was due to make a second attempt to begin consideration of the case brought against the Chief Justice.
An initial attempt to begin proceedings was thwarted when one of the 14 judges set to hear the case, Falak Sher, declined to take part.
Hammad had compiled evidences regarding Steel Mills Case, Missing peoples files and several other miscarriages of justice by the government.
Government insiders also claim that Ex ISI Chief Ijaz Shah's name is constantly linked with the Investigation and then swept under the carpet, "It smells of his Operation", whether directly or indirectly he is involved.
IGP Iftikhar Ahmad told Dawn that a seven-member police team had been constituted to investigate the murder "on different lines to the previous assumption of Robbery".
Syed Hammad Raza Shaheed gold medal and scholarship have been announced by his widow at a function held at Quaid e Azam University Islamabad.
A faculty member who attended the function said of the event as an emotional Affair and at one point the whole audience was reduced to tears when his wife Shabana spoke of her life after Hammad and how this Void is unbearable.
He did his Masters in International Relations from Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad with gold medal and later passed competition exam to join government civil service.