KARACHI: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Friday upheld the death sentence of nine activists of the banned Jundullah and exonerated two other suspects in the Corps Commander convoy attack case.
The accused attacked on the motorcade of the Corps Commander of Sindh, Lt-Gen Ahsan Saleem Hayat, on June 10, 2004, on the old Clifton Bridge, which resulted in the death of six army personnel, three policemen and a passerby.
On 21 Feb 2oo6, an anti-terrorism court sentenced eleven activists of the banned Jundullah to death in the corps commander convoy attack case. The court also awarded multiple terms of rigorous imprisonment on other charges. The convicts had challenged the verdict in the Sindh high court.
The Sindh High Court today upheld the death sentence of nine suspects identified as Attaur Rehman, Shehzad Bajwa, Danish Imam, Aziz Ahmad, Shehzad Mukhtar, Rao Khalid, Shoaib Siddiqui, Khalid and Khurram Saifullah. The high court also acquitted the two named Yaqoob Saeed Khan and Najeebullah.
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