KARACHI: The Supreme Court (SC) acquitted on Tuesday Shahrukh Jatoi as well as other accomplices in the Shahzeb Khan murder case.
A three-judge bench, headed by Justice Ijazul Ahsan, heard the case.
Shahzeb, son of a Deputy Superintendent of Police, was gunned down on the night of December 24, 2012 in Karachi’s Defence Housing Society. Seven people, including Shahrukh, Nawab Siraj Talpur, his brother Sajjad Talpur, and their employee Murtaza Lashari, were booked in the murder case.
An Anti-Terrorism Court handed Jatoi the death sentence in 2013. However, in 2017, the complainant side had ‘pardoned’ Jatoi under the country’s Qisas and Diyat law.
In 2018, the Supreme Court also took notice of it.
Despite the pardon, however, the death penalty had been upheld because of the addition of terrorism charges to the case.
The SHC later dropped the charges and ordered a retrial in the case.