KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday acquitted two convicts, including notorious target killer Ubaid alias K2, against the life term handed to them in a policemen’s murder case.
A two-judge bench of the high court heard the appeals of the convicts and acquitted them. The court ordered jail authorities to release them if their custody was not required in any other case.
The court ruled that the prosecution failed to provide record concrete evidence for the appellate bench to uphold their conviction. The court had reserved the verdict after conclusion of arguments on October 5.
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Ubaid-ur-Rehman alias Ubaid K2 and Nadir Shah were awarded life sentences in the murder case of two policemen. Several workers of the Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) including Ubaid K2 were arrested in a raid at MQM headquarters in Azizabad.
The party workers were indicted in the murder case of two policemen, SHO Nasirul Hassan and Khurram Butt. According to police, SHO Brigade police station Nasirul Hassan had participated in the 1992 operation against the MQM. Gunmen on a motorbike had targeted SHO Nasirul Hassan and his guard, head constable Khurram Butt in July 2010 killing them on the spot.
