A two-member bench of Justice Nasir ul Mulk and Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja rejected both pleas and upheld a decision of BHC. Through their counsel, both had appealed to the apex court to issue direction for removal of their names from the FIR. They pleaded their innocence in the killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti, a former chief minister and former head of Jamhoori Watan Party, who was slain in 2006.
On October 7 last year, the single bench of BHC comprising Chief Justice Qazi Faez Essa accepted an application of Nawabzada Jamil Akbar Bugti, the eldest son of Nawab Bugti, and issued directives to the Dera Bugti SHO to register an FIR against the nominated offenders, sparing only former provincial governor Owais Ghani. In his application Jamil Bugti had nominated former president Pervez Musharraf, former prime minister Shaukat Aziz and others.