The Supreme Court upheld on Wednesday an order of the Sindh High Court and dismissed leave to appeal of three activists of the outlawed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi against their conviction and sentence by an anti-terrorism court on charges of murdering a director of laboratories with the ministry of defence in 2001.Mohammad Shahid Hanif was awarded a life term while Talah Hussain and Khalil Ahmed were handed down the death sentence by Judge Arshad Noor Khan of the Anti-Terrorism Court-III on April 15, 2002. The appellants, who according to the prosecution were riding a bike, had shot dead Syed Zafar Hussain, the director laboratories of the ministry of defence, while he was in his car on the way to office from his house in the limits of Gulberg police station on July 30, 2001. Safdar Hussain Shah, the car's driver, identified the accused during the identification parade as well as during the trial. The trial court, on the evidence of Safdar Hussain Shah, who was also an eyewitness to the crime, convicted all the accused, but awarded a lesser punishment to Mohammad Shahid.