Shahzeb Khan murder case: SC rejects appeal for transfer

On Dec 25, last year, Shahzeb was gunned down by Jatoi, who was accompanied by his friends, Siraj and Sajjad Talpur.

KARACHI: The Supreme Court (SC) Karachi rejected the accused Shahrukh Jatoi’s appeal for the transfer of the Shahzeb Khan murder case to a sessions court from the Anti-terrorism court (ATC), Express News reported on Monday.

The Supreme Court upheld the Sindh High Court (SHC) decision.

Last year, on December 25, 20-year-old Shahzeb Khan was gunned down by Shahrukh Jatoi, who was accompanied by his friends, Siraj and Sajjad Talpur. The young men had a fight after the Talpur’s servant, Ghulam Murtaza Lashari, teased Shahzeb’s sister.

The SHC was expected to take up for hearing the appeals filed by four convicts in the murder case along with the compromise application filed by the victim’s family on September 20.

On September 17, 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.

On September 9, Shahzeb’s parents – DSP Aurangzeb Khan and Ambreen Aurangzeb – had decided to pardon the culprits in the “name of Allah,” without claiming the amount of Diyat or Qisas.

An ATC had handed death sentences to main accused Shahrukh Jatoi and Siraj Talpur and life-long jail terms to Sajjad Talpur and Ghulam Murtaza Lashari on June 7.