ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a petition seeking the suspension of bail granted to two senior police officers accused in the assassination case of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
Bhutto, who had served twice as prime minister in the 1990s, used to be killed in a gun and bomb assault on December 27, 2007 in Rawalpindi, the garrison town neighbouring the capital, after she completed addressing a political rally.
A two-member bench headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa heard the petitions against the prime court docket's choice to grant bails to former City Police Officer (CPO) Saud Aziz and former Superintendent of Police (SP) Khurram Shahzad in the case.
After hearing the arguments, the Supreme Court rejected the petition and upheld the bails granted to the two senior police officers.
No explanation why has been found to interfere in the Lahore High Court Rawalpindi Bench August 2017 order to grant bail, the Express Tribune quoted the order passed by the bench as saying.
On August 31, 2017, an anti-terrorism court docket in Rawalpindi had sentenced Aziz and Shahzad, each deputed on Bhutto's security, to 17 years once they had been found guilty of negligence.
However, each had been set free on bail by the Lahore High Court in October similar year.
Their bail used to be challenged in the Supreme Court by the widow of a employee of Bhutto whose husband used to be also killed in the bombing assault along with her.
The two-member bench headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa dismissed the petition against bail, rejecting arguments by petitioner's lawyer Latif Khosa who said that the bail used to be given by violating the rules.
Khosa said that each had been convicted beneath the anti-terrorism regulations which bar even the suspects from receiving bail.
Earlier, the path court docket acquitted 5 guy accused, and declared Pervez Musharraf as a proclaimed perpetrator in the case. But it awarded sentences to the two police officers.
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto, son of past due Benazir, who attended the hearing expressed dismay at the verdict.
"My family has had a long relationship with the judiciary. We have been coming to the courts for three generations," he said.
He also wondered why Musharraf used to be not convicted and the abettors of the assault had been acquitted.
Apart from Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, former premier Raja Pervez Ashraf, Farhatullah Babar, Mehreen Anwar Raja and other celebration leaders had been present at the hearing.
Bhutto, who had served twice as prime minister in the 1990s, used to be killed in a gun and bomb assault on December 27, 2007 in Rawalpindi, the garrison town neighbouring the capital, after she completed addressing a political rally.
A two-member bench headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa heard the petitions against the prime court docket's choice to grant bails to former City Police Officer (CPO) Saud Aziz and former Superintendent of Police (SP) Khurram Shahzad in the case.
After hearing the arguments, the Supreme Court rejected the petition and upheld the bails granted to the two senior police officers.
No explanation why has been found to interfere in the Lahore High Court Rawalpindi Bench August 2017 order to grant bail, the Express Tribune quoted the order passed by the bench as saying.
On August 31, 2017, an anti-terrorism court docket in Rawalpindi had sentenced Aziz and Shahzad, each deputed on Bhutto's security, to 17 years once they had been found guilty of negligence.
However, each had been set free on bail by the Lahore High Court in October similar year.
Their bail used to be challenged in the Supreme Court by the widow of a employee of Bhutto whose husband used to be also killed in the bombing assault along with her.
The two-member bench headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khosa dismissed the petition against bail, rejecting arguments by petitioner's lawyer Latif Khosa who said that the bail used to be given by violating the rules.
Khosa said that each had been convicted beneath the anti-terrorism regulations which bar even the suspects from receiving bail.
Earlier, the path court docket acquitted 5 guy accused, and declared Pervez Musharraf as a proclaimed perpetrator in the case. But it awarded sentences to the two police officers.
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto, son of past due Benazir, who attended the hearing expressed dismay at the verdict.
"My family has had a long relationship with the judiciary. We have been coming to the courts for three generations," he said.
He also wondered why Musharraf used to be not convicted and the abettors of the assault had been acquitted.
Apart from Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, former premier Raja Pervez Ashraf, Farhatullah Babar, Mehreen Anwar Raja and other celebration leaders had been present at the hearing.
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