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KARACHI, Jan 9: A young man who had killed a woman and her two daughters in a road accident was acquitted on Friday after the legal heirs of the victims pardoned him.
The two sons of Kausar Jehan, Syed Shah Sahir and Syed Shah Aamir appeared before the additional district and sessions judge, Syed Saeed Hasan, and submitted that they pardoned the accused, Zohaib Mushtaq.
Kausar Jehan, and her two daughters Nida, 24 and Anita, 28, were in their Mehran (S-5374) when the accused, riding a Pajero (BC-2637), hit them on Oct 29 last year near Sea-View.
Kausar Jehan and Nida died on the spot while Anita succumbed to injuries on her way to the nearby hospital. The accused was represented by Shahadat Awan.
JUDGMENT RESERVED: The prosecution in a sectarian murder case against two workers of the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi prayed on Friday an anti-terrorism court to award capital punishment to the accused.
Judge Haq Nawaz Baloch of the ATC-5, who conducted the trial inside the Juvenile Prison, fixed Jan 14 for the pronouncement of the judgment after hearing final arguments from the prosecution and defence.
The LJ men - Mohammed Azam and Ataullah - were prosecuted for killing Mohammed Hamid Ali Rizvi on Sept 1, 2001, within the limits of the Clifton police.
Special public prosecutor Mazhar Qayyum argued that the accused be given maximum punishment under the law as the prosecution had successfully proved its case beyond any reasonable doubt.
He submitted that the prosecution examined in all 13 prosecution witnesses, who included two eye-witnesses. The SPP stated that the ballistic report also showed that the empties recovered from the scene matched with the weapons seized from the accused. Defence counsel M. R. Syed contended that the case of prosecution was full of contradictions.
