The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday dismissed the plea of Shahrukh Jatoi, the youth condemned to death for killing a university student, seeking his retrial in the case.
A division bench headed by Justice Sajjad Ali Shah dismissed the miscellaneous application due to non-prosecution. Shahrukh Jatoi along with Nawab Siraj Ali Talpur was sentenced to death, while Siraj’s brother Nawab Sajjad Ali Talpur, and his employee, Ghulam Murtaza Lashari, were sentenced to life imprisonment by the ATC on June 7 last year after they were found guilty of murdering university student, Shahzeb Khan, in Defence on December 24, 2012. Shahrukh Jatoi and other convicts had filed appeals in the SHC challenging their conviction by the ATC.
The counsel for applicant Jatoi had filed an application requesting the court to remand the murder case. The court was also pleaded to order his release on bail and suspend the operation of impugned judgment.
The counsel argued that the trial court had erred in its judgment by convicting the appellant saying the prosecution miserably failed to prove its case beyond any shadow of doubt.
He said there were glaring contradictions in the statements of the prosecution witnesses which could not be sustained in the eyes of the law as well as the rulings of superior courts.
It is pertinent to mention here that victim’s family members, his father, Aurangzeb Khan, mother Ambreen, and sisters Pareshay and Maha later filed their affidavits whereby they pardoned the convicts without any pressure, coercion or interest, but in the name of Allah Almighty.
l�ls���� al>He said due to callousness and apathy of the rulers, the JI leaders in Bangladesh were being persecuted and sentenced to death although they had rendered huge sacrifices for the sake of Pakistan. He said Prof Ghulam Azam had breathed his last behind the bars, Abdul Qadir Mullah had been hanged to death, and death sentences had been announced against two other JI leaders – Mutiur Rahman Nizami and Mir Qasim Ali – but the Pakistan government was maintaining a criminal silence on the issue.
The JI chief said the colonial powers were bent upon wiping out this country by thrusting a nuclear war on it and they were also trying to split this country on racial and ethnic basis as had been done in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.
Separately, Milli Yakjehti Council (MYC) President Sahibzada Abul Khair Zubair and Jamaat-e-Islami Secretary General Liaqat Baloch strongly condemned the torturing of a Christian couple to death at Kot Radha Kishan and called for a high-level enquiry into the incident.
They said the enquiry committee of the MYC, Punjab, would examine the Kot Radha Kirshan tragedy in details.
Sharukh jatoi and siraj talpur must be punished. God Almighty must avenge them to relieve the gaping wound of parents never to be healed. They trusted God because the culprits seemed above law in tghius world. It is God’s turn to do justice and to bring all such powerful outlaws to book.
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