The Supreme Court has acquitted a man convicted of an attack on former president General (retd) Pervez Musharraf.
The appeals against the conviction of suspect Rana Tanvir filed by the federal and Punjab governments were rejected by a three-member bench chaired by Justice Sardar Tariq Masood.
Tanvir’s counsel, Hashmat Habib told the court that the convict had not been released despite the completion of his life sentence.
The span of life detention is 14 years “whereas my client has been in jail for 20 years”, the counsel added.
According to the government’s lawyer, Tanvir was under “solid evidence.” He claimed that the high court had not properly considered all of the available evidence.
The court chose to acquit Tanvir after hearing arguments from both sides.
Tanvir was given a life sentence by the supreme court in 2005. Due to his role in the attack on Musharraf’s motorcade in Rawalpindi on December 31, 2003, he was taken into custody.
The jail authorities were not releasing him despite the completion of his sentence.
The Supreme Court rejected the arguments from the Punjab and Federal governments and upheld the release order made by the High Court.
