The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Thursday acquitted three people charged in an honour killing case. The accused — Israr, Rehman Zada and Suleman — had allegedly killed Akhtar Gul, a resident of Batkhila in Swat, on the suspicion that the latter had an affair with one of his sisters-in-law. The Swat zila qazi sentenced the accused to life imprisonments and also fined each of them Rs 50,000. The accused then filed a petition with the PHC against the conviction.n. The petitioner's counsel told the court that there was no eyewitness in the case and that the police had made numerous errors in the case investigations. The PHC bench, consisting of justices Tariq Pervez Khan and Qaim Jan Khan, upturned the petitioners' conviction after hearing arguments of both the counsels and issued their acquittal orders.
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