The Sindh High Court on Monday put off till August 6, a criminal revision application of Shahrukh Jatoi, the youth condemned to death for killing a university student, through which he challenged the dismissal of his plea for his trial under the Juvenile Justice System Ordinance in the murder case.
A division bench headed by Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar adjourned the application for want of time.
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 2013. The indicted were found guilty of murdering Shahzeb Khan, a university student in Defence on December 24, 2012. Shahrukh Jatoi and other convicts had filed appeals in the SHC challenging their conviction by the ATC.
The litigant challenged anti-terrorism court’s decision that dismissed his application seeking re-examination of the convicts’ age and his trial under the Juvenile Justice System Ordinance.
The litigant’s counsel said a special medical board team report confirmed the age of his client to be between 19 and 20 years of age. The litigant further said that the investigation had failed to provide Jatoi’s birth certificate, the B-form issued by the district municipal corporation and the educational and identity documents issued by the National Database Registration Authority.
He said all the documents confirmed that the age of the suspect was below 18.