Shahzaib murder case: Shahrukh Jatoi, other accused released on bail
The court has also directed them to submit surety bonds worth Rs5 lac in this regard.
KARACHI (Dunya News) – Shahrukh Jatoi among other suspects were released on bail on late Saturday after Sindh High Court (SHC) ordered their release in a hearing earlier today in Shahzaib murder case.
According to details, the court ordered the suspects to submit surety bonds worth Rs5 lac in this regard.
The decision was made after Shahzaib’s father submitted agreement copy in the court. "Shahzaib’s family forgave (Shahrukh Jatoi) in the name of Allah. They didn’t take any cash,” brother Ashraf Jatoi said while talking to media.
“What Shahrukh Jatoi and his friends did was wrong.”
Earlier, SHC had suspended death sentences awarded to criminals Shahrukh Jatoi and Siraj Talpur, saying that the session court would look into the terror sections in the case.
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Shahzaib Khan, a Karachi student was murdered in December 2012 and son of a feudal Shahrukh Jatoi among four criminals were awarded sentences by an anti-terrorism court. Jatoi and Talpur were sentenced to death while Sajjad Talpur and Ghulam Murtaza Lashari were sentenced to life imprisonments.
However, an affidavit was filed with the court by parents of the slain student, Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Aurangzeb Khan and wife in 2013 pardoning both the murderers and the accomplices.
