KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Friday commuted death sentences, handed down by an Anti-Terrorism Court, of 2 police personnel to life imprisonment while acquitting 6 others in a famous ‘Intizar murder case’.
In October last year, an anti-terrorism court had handed down death sentences to two police personnel, Danyal and Bilal, who were serving as the guard and driver of the former chief of the police’s Anti-Car Lifting Cell (ACLC), for killing teenager Intizar Ahmed in, what had been described as a “planned encounter” in the city’s Defence Housing Authority neighborhood in 2018.
The ATC had also awarded life imprisonment to six other ACLC officials, including then-station house officer Tariq Mehmood, former inspectors Tariq Raheem and Azhar Ahsan, then-head constable Shahid Usman and ex-constables Ghulam Abbas and Fawad Khan.
All those convicted had challenged the ATC verdict in Sindh High Court, which today commuted the death sentences of Danyal and Bilal to life imprisonment, while acquitted six other ACLC personnel.
