KARACHI - Sindh High Court (SHC) on Saturday has ordered to release suspects Shah Rukh Jatoi and others on bail in Shahzaib murder case.
Earlier, SHC had suspended death sentences awarded to criminals Shahrukh Jatoi and Siraj Talpur, saying that the session court would look into the terror sections in the case.
Shahzaib Khan, a Karachi student was murdered in December 2012 and son of a feudal Shahrukh Jatoi among four criminals were awarded sentences by an anti-terrorism court. Jatoi and Talpur were sentenced to death while Sajjad Talpur and Ghulam Murtaza Lashari were sentenced to life imprisonments.
However, an affidavit was filed with the court by parents of the slain student, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Aurangzeb Khan and wife in 2013 pardoning both the murderers and the accomplices.