RAWALPINDI: Federal government has challenged Benazir Bhutto murder case verdict in Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi bench.
Federal government has changed his law officer in this case and has replaced former prosecutor with Assistant Attorney General (AAG) Faisal Mehmood Raja.
AAG Faisal Mehmood in the petition has taken the plea that norms of justice have not been met in the decision. Rafaqat Hussain, Hassnain, Sher Zaman, Abdul Rashid and Aitzaz Shah be awarded death sentence and sentences awarded to Saud Aziz and Khurram Shahzad be enhanced to death sentence.
A division bench of LHC comprising Justice Tariq Abbasi and Justice Habib Ullah Amir will take up for hearing the appeal plea filed by federal government on October 2.
Earlier Asif Ali Zardari and convicted police officers Saud Aziz and Khurram Shahzad have already filed appeal pleas against the court’s decision in this case
