The heirs of Dr. Ameerud Din, a medical doctor brutally murdered in Quetta in 2021, have petitioned the Supreme Court for an expedited hearing, citing threats to their safety by the accused, Abdul Qayum, who was acquitted by the Balochistan High Court earlier this year.
During last year, Additional Sessions Judge-II Sariab Division Quetta awarded death sentence to one Abdul Qayum with direction to pay compensation in the sum of Two Lac Rupees to the legal heirs of deceased. However, Balochistan High Court acquitted the accused person in the matter in response to jail appeal.
Challenging this acquittal before the top court through advocate Umer Ijaz Gilani the petitioner prayed the top court saying impugned judgment has resulted in a miscarriage of justice. He sought Supreme Court directives for an immediate arrest and detention of accused person in the matter upon granting leave to appeal in a petition against acquittal.
Filing criminal petition for leave to appeal in the matter the petitioner submitted that three years ago on 05.11.2021, Quetta was shocked by the murder of Dr. Ameerud Din. He further expressed the same night that the murder took place, CCTV footage of the killing became viral on social media. A terrorized public saw the easily identifiable assailant killing the young practicing doctor inside his clinic. FIR was lodged in an hour, and the murderer Abdul Qayyum was apprehended in a couple of days. A few days later, he confessed his crime before a Judicial Magistrate. He had suspected that his wife, who was seeing the doctor in his clinic, had an affair; these suspicions, he confessed, ultimately drove him to cold-blooded murder of the doctor.
He informed that eyewitness testimony, CCTV footage, forensic report of the recovered weapon and a judicial confession – all of this evidence led the learned Sessions Court to pronounced a sentence of death.
The petitioner is of the view that Balochistan High Court, however, has acquitted the accused, while relying only upon hyper-technicalities. He added the murder suspect now roams scot-free in the very neighborhoods where this heinous act was vicariously witnessed by thousands through a video.
Heirs urged the Supreme Court to fix hearing of the matter in the large interest of justice saying the family of the deceased don’t know how to show their faces to society.
