Supreme Court. PHOTO: EXPRESS/FILE
A three-member bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali, on Wednesday heard a petition filed by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) Chaudhry Muhammad Ilyas who had sought disqualification of Raza’s membership from the lower house on account of a 2003 conviction.
The PML-N legislator had been handed the death penalty by an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in 2003 for his involvement in an assassination attempt on former Gujarat Tehsil Nazim and ex-MPA Ghulam Sarwar. The 1998 attack had left six people dead.
But the court acquitted him after he reached a settlement with heirs of the victims who forgave him. During Wednesday’s hearing the court issued a bailable arrest warrant for Raza and told him to deposit a security bond of Rs200,000.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 19th, 2015.
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