KARACHI:
The Sindh High Court (SHC) is expected to take up for hearing the appeals filed by four convicts in the Shahzeb Khan murder case along with the compromise application filed by the victim’s family on September 20.
On Tuesday, the court’s bench had removed the primary objections raised on the compromise application filed by the parents and the two sisters of the victim.
The convicts, Shahrukh Jatoi and Nawab Siraj Talpur, were handed down the death penalty, while Nawab Sajjad Talpur and Ghulam Murtaza Lashari were awarded life imprisonment by an anti-terrorism court on June 7. They were all found guilty of killing Khan over a petty dispute in the upscale defence neighbourhood on December 25, 2012.
On September 9, the victim’s father, DSP Aurangzeb Khan, his mother, Ambreen, and sisters Parishey and Maha, had forgiven the convicts in the name of Allah without claiming the amount of Diyat or Qisas.
They pleaded to the court to acquit the four, and clarified that they had pardoned them without any pressure or coercion.
