8 get Death Penalty in DIG murder case
Pakistan Times Baluchistan Bureau Report

DERA MURAD JAMALI: Anti-Terrorist Court, Sibi, while announcing judgment in murder case of ex-Deputy Inspector General of Police Sibi Range Abdul Aziz Bullo here Friday, awarded death penalties to eight accused.

The convicts included Behram Khan, Fazal Mohammad, Bakht Ali, Lal Jan, Abdul Latif, Ghulam Rasool, Rahim and Peru Khan.

The court, headed by Judge Mohammad Ismail Baloch also sentenced two other accused Mohammad Ismail and Hadas Khan to five years rigorous imprisonment each in the same case while acquitted another, Abdul Aziz, of the charge giving him benefit of doubt.

Six other accused involved in the same case have already been killed in various police encounters on Sindh-Balochistan border. They included Sabir Hussain, Abdul Fateh, Haroon Kandrani, Abdul Rehman, Mewa Khan and Mian Bakhsh.

The convicts along with their deceased accomplices had killed DIG Sibi Range Abdul Aziz Bullo and three other police officials Nawab Khan, Suleman Khan and another by opening fire on them with sophisticated weapons during a robbery attempt on Dera Murad Jamali-Nuttal highway on June 9, 2003. The DIG and police officials were on their way from Dera Murad Jamali to Nuttal in their official vehicle when they were intercepted by the convicts.●