RAWALPINDI: Justice Shahid Mehmood Abbasi of the Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi Bench on Monday recused himself from hearing appeals of Pakistan People’s Party Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari in the Benazir Bhutto murder case.
The PPP leader had filed three appeals with the LHC against the verdict of an anti-terrorist court, which was announced on August 31. The petitioner's counsel Latif Khosa in the first appeal asked the court to announce a punishment for Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf in accordance with the criminal code.
In second appeal, the court has been requested to change the sentence given to the police officers involved in the case to death penalty as according to law, the punishment for murder is the death sentence. The third appeal appealed to the court to award death sentence to five Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan suspects who had been acquitted by the ATC.
Earlier, the bench, comprising Justice Tariq Abassi and Justice Habibullah Amir accepted the petition for regular hearing on September 21, 2017 and issued notices to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), ATC and other respondents.
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