In a major development, death row inmate Shahrukh Jatoi — the main accused in the high profile Shahzeb Khan murder case — was acquitted by the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
The other convicts in the case were also acquitted.
Shahzeb Khan, 20, was shot dead on the night between December 24 and 25 in 2012.
According to the 2013 judgment, the court penalised all four accused in the case with a fine worth Rs500,000, while Sajjad Talpur and Murtaza Lashari were ordered to serve an additional one year of imprisonment for harassing Shahzeb’s sister.
Speaking to a private news channel in 2013, the victim’s mother Ambreen Aurangzeb had reportedly said: “We may not have forgiven them in our hearts, but we have pardoned our son’s killers in the name of Allah. We cannot spend our entire lives in fear… we took the decision considering the circumstances.”
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