Safoora tragedy: reply sought from Defence Ministry on pleas against death sentence

Author: PPI

The Sindh High Court |(SHC) on Friday ordered the Defence Ministry to submit its reply in all petitions filed against the death sentences awarded to the accused of Safoora Goth incident by a military court.

A SHC bench heard appeals of the convicted accused against death sentence awarded to them by military court. The counsel of the accused told the bench that federal government has not submitted related documents yet.

The assistant attorney general told the bench that these documents were sensitive which have been shown to the court during in-camera proceeding.

The petitioner’s counsel replied that only single document of a one case was produced.

The military court hard awarded death sentence to Saad Aziz, Tahir Minhas, Azhar Ishrat, Hafiz Nasir and Asad-u-Rehman in Safoora Goth bus attack case.

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