Shahrukh Jatoi and Siraj Talpur

PAKISTAN: SHC COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCES FOR SHAHRUKH JATOI, SIRAJ TALPUR IN SHAHZEB MURDER CASE

May 13, 2019:

The Sindh High Court on 13 May 2019 commuted the death sentences handed to Shahrukh Jatoi and Siraj Talpur in the Shahzeb Khan murder case into life imprisonment as it announced its verdict on their appeals against conviction in the case.
Two others accused in the case, Sajjad Talpur and Ghulam Murtaza Lashari, were sentenced to life in jail. The court upheld their sentences.
An anti-terrorism court had sentenced Shahrukh Jatoi and his friend Nawab Siraj Ali Talpur to death in June 2013, while two other co-accused were awarded life imprisonment for killing 20-year-old Shahzeb Khan on 25 December 2012 near his home in the Defence Housing Authority.
In 2013, Khan's parents had decided to pardon the culprits responsible for the murder of their son.
The convicts, through their counsel, filed appeals in the SHC against the conviction while Shahrukh had also filed a criminal review application contending that he was a juvenile at the time of the offence.