The Supreme Court ordered the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Wednesday to complete the hearing of the Sarfraz Shah murder case within the next 15 days. A three-member Supreme Court bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Tariq Parvez and Justice Amir Hani Muslim asked the ATC judge to decide the case without fear.
Deputy Attorney General Mazhar Chaudhry told the court that the ATC needed more time to decide the case. He requested the court to grant one more month to ATC but the court gave the ATC another two weeks. The Supreme Court had ordered the removal of Sindh Rangers Director General Maj Gen Ejaz Chaudhry and Inspector General of Police Fayyaz Ahmed Leghari over the cold-blooded killing of an unarmed youth by Rangers personnel in Karachi on June 8.
The seven accused in the Sarfraz Shah murder case have already been indicted. The accused included six Rangers personnel who were caught on tape roughing up and then shooting the young man from pointblank range in Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Park in Clifton, Karachi. The apex court has a taken suo motu notice of the case.
