KARACHI, Dec 14: A division bench of the Sindh High Court converted on Thursday a constitutional petition filed by the state in the murder case of two Iranian engineers into a revision application.

The bench comprised Justice Zahid Kurban Alavi and Justice Musheer Alam.

Murtaza Adeebzada and Ali Mohammed Habibzada had been murdered on February 21, 1998, while they were working at Clifton flyover.

An anti-terrorism court sentenced two men to death on a charge of double murder, spreading terror and fanning sectarian violence.

They preferred appeals against their conviction. After hearing, the case was remanded back to the trial court for re-trial. In the meantime, the original trial court ceased to function after which the administrative judge sent the case to the court of Abdul Hameed Abro where the counsel for the respondents raised the point of jurisdiction.

The trial court, agreeing with the contentions of the counsel for the convicts, sent the case to the sessions’ court South against which the state filed the present constitutional petition.

When the matter came up for hearing, the AG Sindh requested that the constitutional petition be converted into a revision application for adjudication of the issue of jurisdiction.

Allowing the request, the court converted the petition into a revision application and put off the matter after Eid vacations.