Sharukh Jatoi, the main accused in the high-profile Shahzeb Khan murder case, has been released from the Malir jail after 10 years.

The administration of District Jail Malir received orders to release Jatoi and other suspects, after which all the accused have been released from jail.

The letter said that the Supreme Court accepted the appeals of the accused in the Shahzeb murder case and ordered their release.

Last month Supreme Court ordered the acquittal of Shahrukh Jatoi and his accomplices in the case.

During the hearing, Jatoi’s counsel Latif Khosa had argued that “the parties have already reached an agreement”. “The accused had no intention of spreading terror,” he said.

The apex court had annulled the Sindh High Court’s verdict to uphold the punishment of the accused in the case and ordered their release following reconciliation with the victim’s family.

Khosa told the bench that his clients had no plans of spreading terror, adding that the murder case was painted as a terrorist activity.

“The Supreme Court has acquitted the four accused on the basis of the agreement. Today, of course, justice has been done,” Khosa told reporters after the top court’s decision.

Shahzeb Khan’s murder

Shahzeb Khan, 20, the son of a police official, was killed on December 24, 2012, in Karachi’s Defence Housing Authority which drew outrage across the country. He was returning home with his sister from a wedding.

He was killed for picking a fight with one of the suspects’ servants, who had verbally threatened and harassed his sister.

The-then chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry had taken suo motu notice of the incident.

The media reported that the prime suspect belonged to powerful feudal families in Sindh.