Summary Says took the step after assurances that no harm will be done to witnesses in the case.
KARACHI (Dunya News) - Justifying the decision to pardon the killers of her son, Shahzeb’s mother Monday said that her family felt proud that her son’s case became an example for the society.
Talking to media, she said that the family was feeling isolated with the passage of time and wanted to take some decision for return to normal life.
“My son will not return if his killers are hanged and we have left the whole matter to God. We forgave the culprits in the name of God,” she said.
Shahzeb’s mother said that she believed that the culprits would be able to escape the sentence. “We did what we thought right according to the situation”, she added.
She said that disappointment of the people over the decision was understandable but execution of Shahrukh Jatoi could not have brought her son back.
She said she wished killers of her son to be alive so that they die every moment in guilt.
Shahzeb’s mother said that they had been assured that no harm would be caused to the witnesses in the case.
Earlier, in a surprise decision parents of Shahzeb Khan pardoned all the culprits. In this regard, father of Shahzeb Khan submitted an affidavit in Sindh High Court on Monday.
.An anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Karachi had sentenced Shahrukh Jatoi, the main accused in the Shahzeb murder case, to death.
Another suspect, Siraj Talpur, was also awarded capital punishment for his role in the crime.
Whereas, two other suspects in the case, Sajjad Ali Talpur and Ghulam Murtaza Lashari were sentenced to life imprisonment.
Twenty-year-old Shahzeb Khan was gunned down on the night of December 24, 2012 when he was returning home along with his sister after attending a wedding.
Shahzeb, son of a DSP, was murdered reportedly after he had an altercation with one of the suspects’ servant who had allegedly given verbal threats to the victim’s sister.
Jatoi, Siraj Talpur, his younger brother Sajjad Talpur and their house servant Ghulam Murtaza Lashari were charged with killing Shahzeb in the city’s Defence Housing Authority (DHA).
The case had attracted much media attention after the Supreme Court took a suo motu notice of the murder.
