Summary Sindh High Court has transferred the petition to the trial court.
KARACHI (Dunya News) -- Sindh High Court has transferred the petition filed by Shahrukh Jatoi, the prime convict in Shahzeb Khan’s murder case, to the trial court.
Sindh High court has transferred Shahrukh Jatoi’s petition, seeking the countermand of proceedings related to illegal possession of weapons, to the trial court. The inquiry report is expected to be provided within three weeks.
On June 7, an anti-terrorism court had sentenced Jatoi to death upon finding him guilty of murdering Shahzeb Khan, the 20-year-old son of a police deputy superintendent. Also, he was sentenced to a three-year-jail term for illegal possession of weapons.
Co-accused in the case, Sajjad Talpur and Ghulam Murtaza Lashari were handed life imprisonment sentences.
Twenty-year-old Shahzeb Khan was gunned down on the night of December 24, 2012 on his way back home along with his sister after attending a wedding. He was reportedly murdered after having a fierce disputation with the suspects’ servants who had allegedly given verbal threats to the victim’s sister.
Soon after the sentence to death was announced, Jatoi’s brother got into an argument with judges and had to be moved out of the court room. As a result, the detailed judgment of the case could not be signed by those convicted. However, they were later called back to sign the judgment and later taken towards the central jail.
The family members of the convicts threatened to file an appeal challenging the judgment of the court whereas Jatoi’s lawyer, Shaukat Hussain Zuberi said he would file an appeal within seven days of the court’s ruling on the claims that the case investigation was flawed. The convicts have filed a petition in the high court to revisit the evidence on the illegal weapons possession.
