The Islamabad High Court has reduced the death sentence awarded to two convicts in the Osama Satti murder case to life imprisonment, while acquitting three others.
The court announced its verdict on the appeals filed by the five convicts.
Justices Mohsin Akhtar Kayani and Sardar Ejaz Ishaq Khan chaired the bench which delivered the decision.
Convicts Iftikhar Ahmed and Muhammad Mustafa had their death sentences commuted to life sentences, while Saeed Ahmed, Shakeel Ahmed and Mudassir Mukhtar were acquitted of all charges.
The case concerned the shooting death of Osama Satti, a young man killed by police officers. Previously, the convicted police officers had challenged their sentences, leading to a revised decision by the High Court.
On January 2, 2021, around 2 a.m., Osama went to drop off his friend in sector H-11. When he returned, the police intercepted his vehicle in the G-10 sector of the Srinagar highway and fired at him from all sides.
Police said they attempted to stop a suspicious vehicle with tinted windows and opened fire when the driver failed to stop.
The incident spread like wildfire on the micro-blogging site as micro-bloggers attacked “police brutality” and “fake encounter”.
