ISLAMABAD, (DNA) – A Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar while hearing petition about triple murder in Mehar town of Dadu district ordered authorities to extend full security to complainant Umme Rubab and her family.

The apex court ordered the trial court to indict the accused withing 15 days and complete the trial within three months.

Petitioner Umme Rubab pleaded to the court that she and her family facing threat to their lives in Mehar and requested for transfer of the case to Karachi.

Chief Justice Nisar remarked the police could not arrest the accused. He told the petitioner to file an application in the high court for transfrer of the case.

The court also directed the Sindh High Court to decide the plea within 15 days.

The bench also ordered police to arrest the absconding accused and submit report in the court and also submit monthly progress report of the case in the court.

A former People’s Party MPA Nawab Sardar Ahmed Chandio and his brother Nawab Burhan Khan Chandio, nominated in the triple murder in January last year, had earlier got pre-arrest bail from court.

Sikandar Chandio, one of the seven people nominated in the first information report (FIR), for the murder of Raees Karamullah Chandio and his sons Mukhtar Ahmed Chandio and Qabil Chandio, was apprehended in Mehar along with two other people.

Karamullah and his sons were killed on January 17 in an armed attack in Ahmed colony, close to the DSP’s office and a local police station.

Pervaiz Ahmed Chandio, Karamullah’s son, had filed the FIR for the incident nominating PPP at that time Nawab Sardar Ahmed Chandio, his younger brother and former provincial adviser Nawab Burhan Khan Chandio, Murtza Chandio, Ali Gohar Chandio, Sikandar Chandio, Zulifiqar Chandio and Ghulam Qadir alias Qadoo.