In a startling revelation on Monday, Aaj TV reported how murder convict Shahrukh Jatoi has been serving his jail term at “a private hospital” rather than at a jail as per court orders.

Jatoi was shifted to a private hospital in Karachi's Gizri area a few months ago instead of completing his imprisonment in the central jail, GeoNews reported.

He was spending a luxurious life in a hospital's upper floor and was shifted to the hospital on the directives of Sindh Interior Department, the report claimed.

It also claimed that the hospital was established by Shahrukh’s family.

An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) had awarded the death penalty to Jatoi and Siraj Ali Talpur for Shahzeb Khan’s murder in 2012 following a dispute in the Defence Housing Authority. Siraj’s younger brother, Sajjad Ali Talpur, and another accused Ghulam Murtaza Lashari had been handed life sentences.

The killing of young Shahzeb had sparked widespread protests by civil society and the then chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry had also taken suo motu notice of failure of the police to arrest the killers, including Jatoi who had escaped to Dubai.