While deciding legality of compromise between deceased heirs and the convict, the top court on Thursday remanded back the matter to the Lahore High Court relating to acquittal of MNA Abid Raza in a murder case. Resuming the hearing of a suo-motu on acquittal of Raza with other identical pleas on legality of the preposition, a 5-member larger bench of the Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali said that during pendency of the case before the Lahore High Court, bails of Abid Raza and others shall remain intact.
Abid Raza was elected as MNA from NA 107 in 2013 general elections. During 2001, he was awarded death sentence in murder case of six people in Gujarat under the Anti-Terrorism Act, however, later he was acquitted on the basis of compromise with the deceased heirs.
Abid Raza's counsel advocate Munir Bhatti pleaded before the larger bench that deceased family members had agreed on a compromise in the matter to which the LHC acquitted his client. To which the Chief Justice Jamali observed that there was no provision of compromise in a case proceeded under the ATA 1997 and remanded back the case to LHC for adjudication in two months.