The Supreme Court of Pakistan has ordered to release the accused arrested in a murder case for the last 12 years.
A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, including Justice Alam and Justice Mazhar Alam Miankhel has conducted the hearing of the case.
During the course of the hearing, Muhammad Sadiq Baloch, the counsel of petitioner told that court that accused Shahzad was drinking water while sitting on a water channel. The deceased Muhammad Youqab stopped him to do so, which led to the exchange of hot words.
The accused was alleged of assassinating him with a knife but the eye witnesses could not prove it.
The counsel of petitioner further said that post mortem was conducted after one day of murder incident.
The apex court has acquitted the accused on the absence of solid evidence.
It is worth-mentioning here that trial court had awarded death sentence to accused and the high court had converted this death sentence into life imprisonment and now apex court has acquitted him.
The accused Shahzad was alleged of assassinating Muhammad Youqab because of the dispute.
The Police Station Ghulamabad, an area of Faisalabad, had arrested the accused and registered a case against him.