SHC reserves verdict in Shahzeb murder case.

KARACHI -- The Sindh High Court (SHC) reserved on Monday the verdict in the Shahzeb murder case after the completion of arguments by the counsels over the appeals filed against the sentences awarded to the suspects by the trial court.

A two-member bench headed by Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar and comprising Justice Nazar Akbar heard the appeals of the suspects, Shahrukh Jatoi and others.

Advocate Syed Mehmood Alam Rizvi argued that the deceased's father and the plaintiff had died and has left a widow and two daughters behind. All three women are abroad, he said, and do not want to come to court.

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According to the state's counsel, the government had raised an objection over the compromise reached between the suspects and the plaintiff. The compromise could not be presented before the court without the consent of the special public prosecutor.

The bench had expressed its reservations over the legal status of the compromise and reserved its verdict on Monday.

Safoora Goth case

The SHC adjourned the hearing of a plea seeking suspension of a death penalty handed to convicts in the Safoora Goth bus firing case.

The counsel for the federation submitted a reply regarding deferment of the death penalty awarded by a military court. The federal government said in its response that the plea was not maintainable in the high court and the Supreme Court should be approached in this regard.

The court, after providing the copies of the reply, submitted by the federal government to the applicants, deferred the hearing till March 26.

Earlier, a military court had awarded death sentences to five suspects involved in Safoora Goth massacre.

According to Inter-Services Public Relations, five convicts, Tahir Hussain Minhas, son of Khadim Hussain Minhas, Saad Aziz, son of Abdul Aziz Sheikh, Asad ur Rehman, son of Atiqur Rehman, Hafiz Nasir, son...