ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday set aside an order of the Lahore High Court and acquitted a man linked to a 2004 murder case. Malik Majid Nazir was sentenced to death by a sessions court under Section 302-B of the Pakistan Penal Code for his involvement in a murder case. The Lahore High Court later commuted his death sentence to life imprisonment. In 2011, Asim Nazir, brother of the accused, moved the Supreme Court against the conviction of his brother.A three-member bench headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa took up the case. Advocate Sikandar Hayat appeared before the court on behalf of Nazir and argued that there were contradictions in the statements of witnesses. He said that charges against his client were baseless. He said the sessions court awarded his client death sentence, which was commuted to life imprisonment when the judgement was challenged in the high court. He said the available evidence was insufficient to have his client convicted. He said that his client was charged with murder, but these charges could not be proved due to contradictions in the statements of witnesses and the First Information Report of the police. During the course of hearing, Punjab Additional Advocate General Zubair Ahmad Farooq said the clash resulted from the harassment of a woman and the accused committed the murder to take revenge on the victim.