Staff Report
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court (SC) on Friday fixed the hearing of appeals against the acquittal of the accused Ahmed Omer Saeed Shaikh in Daniel Pearl murder case.
The top court’s bench headed by Justice Umar Ata Bandial will hear the appeal against the acquittal of Omer Shaikh in Daniel Pearl murder case on March 10.
The murder accused had been shifted to a state guest house from jail over the court orders. The federal and Sindh governments had earlier pleaded not to release Omer Shaikh.
Earlier on February 2, the Supreme Court had rejected a review petition seeking suspension of the Sindh High Court’s acquittal verdict in Daniel Pearl murder case.
A bench of the apex court headed by Justice Umar Ata Bandial had ordered while dismissing the petition to immediately remove the main accused Ahmed Omer Saeed Shaikh and others from the death cell of the jail.
Four convicts of the murder case, British national Ahmed Omer Saeed Shaikh, co-accused Fahad Naseem, Salman Saqib and Sheikh Adil had moved the Sindh High Court (SHC) in 2002 challenging their convictions handed down by the Hyderabad Anti-Terrorism Court after finding them guilty of abducting and killing American Journalist Daniel Pearl.
