PESHAWAR, July 21: The Peshawar High Court on Monday set aside the acquittal of four accused in a robbery case and ordered their arrest and their re-trial.

The accused — Suhail Khan, Munir Hussain, Shafiq Hussain and Tanvir Hussain — had been convicted for looting buses at gunpoint. They accused had confessed to their crime.

The Kohat police had registered the case on March 31, 1992.

The accused had been acquitted by the additional district and sessions judge Kohat, while the lower court’s decision had been challenged in the Peshawar High Court.

In another case additional district and sessions judge Hazirul Habib acquitted an accused in a grenade attack due to lack of evidence. The accused, Mohammad Hanif, was charged with lobbing a hand- grenade on a factory, injuring the factory’s owner, Shahzad.

Faqir Abad police had registered the case on September, 3, 1999.—APP