ATC adjourns hearing into Mehar’s triple murder case

SUKKUR: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Friday adjourned hearing into Mehar triple murder case till May 11, ARY News reported.

ATC Judge Shakeel Hyder took up the case related to triple murder including a union council chairman in Mehar.

The Sindh High Court (SHC) had ordered hearing of Mehar triple murder case in an anti-terrorism court.

The high court’s Sukkur bench had announced its reserved judgment.

Two MPAs from Sindh, Sardar Chandio and Burhan Chandio, have been booked in murder case of a father and his two sons in Mehar town of Dadu district.

The Supreme Court had earlier ordered the lower court hearing the triple murder case in Mehar to complete the trial within three months and indict the accused within 15 days.

Pakistan People’s Party MPAs Nawab Sardar Ahmed Chandio and his brother Nawab Burhan Khan Chandio were nominated in the triple murder case last year in January but were granted a pre-arrest bail from court.

Sikandar Chandio, one of the seven people nominated in the first information report (FIR), for the murder of Raees Karamullah Chandio and his sons Mukhtar Ahmed Chandio and Qabil Chandio, was apprehended in Mehar along with two other people.

Karamullah and his sons were killed on January 17 in an armed attack in Mehar.