ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed an appeal against the verdict of a high court in a murder case. A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa and consisting of Justice Qazi Faez Isa and Justice Tariq Pervez heard the case. Sardar Abdul Razzaq, counsel for convicts Aaqil Shahzad and Ameer Muhammad, told the court that his client Shahzad was underage when he committed the crime. He said the high court sentenced him to life imprisonment. He said the complainant also nominated Shahzad’s uncle in the case, but there was no evidence that both Shahzad and his uncle killed the victim. He said there was a trend in Pakistan that rivals would nominate a senor member of the family if an underage person commits a crime. He said the convict could not be hanged in such cases. Justice Khosa said there was another trend in the Pakistani society – elders of a child would come out to take revenge. He said that parents should educate their children instead of seeking revenge. The counsel for the victim Shahid Khan told the court that the culprit had confessed that he committed the crime on the instructions of his uncle and a lawyer. He said the underage child confessed to his crime because of the elders of the area. The counsel for the victim said that Ameer Muhammad was the ringleader of his village. Justice Pervez said no one was above the law. He said the court would not make decisions in such cases on the bases of assumptions. On completion of the hearing, the court dismissed the appeal against the verdict of the high court. Aaqil Shahzad had stabbed Shahid Khan to death in Attock police precincts in 2001. The high court had sentenced the convicts to life imprisonment in 2009. The convicts had filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the verdict of the high court in 2010.