Daniel Pearl murder case: SC fixes June 1 to hear pleas against SHC virdict
A three-member special bench of the Supreme Court will start hearing the petitions on June 1.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) - The Supreme Court (SC) on Thursday fixed pleas against Sindh High Court (SHC) verdict in Daniel Pearl murder case for hearing on June 1, Dunya News reported.
A three-member special bench of the Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Gulzar Ahmad will start hearing the petitions on June 1.
The Sindh High Court (SHC) last month had commuted the death sentence of prime suspect Ahmed Omer Sheikh to seven years in prison in abduction and murder case of Daniel Pearl – an American journalist.
Justice KK Agha and Justice Zulfiqar Ali Sangi issued verdict on appeals, lodged by the suspects against their sentences, after 18 years and acquitted the other three accused in the case who had been handed over life terms earlier.
Fahad Naseem, Salman Saqib and Sheikh Adil were the co-accused. Ahmed Omer Sheikh, the main accused, is a British national.
The SHC remarked that the kidnapping case is proven against Ahmed Omer Sheikh while the murder accusations have not been proven against any of the suspects.
Let it be known that an anti-terrorism had handed over death sentence to Ahmed Omer Sheikh and life terms to Fahad Naseem, Salman Saqib and Sheikh Adil on July 15, 2002 for abducting Daniel Pearl for ransom and killing him afterwards.
Daniel Pearl was working as the South Asia Bureau Chief of The Wall Street Journal.
