The Supreme Court on Wednesday converted the death sentence of 7 murder accused into 10-year imprisonment.
A trial court awarded capital punishment to 7 accused while 6 accused were awarded life sentence over murder of 2 brothers in Sialkot in 2010.
The high court also maintained the trial court verdict.
The incident took place in Sialkot in 2010 where an angry mob shot and killed 2 brothers Hafiz Muneeb and Hafiz Mughez by terming them bandits.
The apex court also took suo moto notice over the incident.
A 3-member Bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa comprising Justice Mazhar Alam Khan Miankhel and Justice Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmad heard the case through video link from SC Lahore Registry.
During the course of proceedings, the Chief Justice said that two stories were made in this case and 2 FIRs were registered.
In first FIR injured persons were mentioned but in the second FIR no injured person was mentioned, he added. He said that these are disadvantages of the suo moto notices.
He said that the State had the power to punish in case of any crime. If people had captured the robbers, they did not have authority to punish them, he added.
He said that violence could not be allowed at all in society. If courts released accused, people would get a licence to torture, he added.
The court after hearing the arguments converted death sentence of 7 accused and life imprisonment of 5 to 10 years imprisonment. Detailed judgment of the case will be issued later.
Source: nation.com.pk, Staff, September 19, 2019
Former Pakistani cricketing star calls for public hanging of child rapists
Former Pakistani cricketing star Shahid Afridi demanded on Wednesday the state publicly hang people who have raped children to set an example for others.
He was speaking at a ceremony in Karachi. His comments came in response to a question about the recent horrifying incident pertaining to child abuse and murder in Punjab’s Kasur district.
Protests broke out in Kasur’s Chunian early Wednesday, a day after bodies of three missing children were found. The protest was held outside the City Chunian police station, where the demonstrators demanded the arrest of the murderers.
Afridi said there lies a huge responsibility on the state in this regard, demanding the public hanging of the perpetrators behind such heinous incidents.
He also said that no human rights group should object to capital punishment for child abusers.
“An example should be set for others and no human rights [group] should have any problem with it,” the former cricketer said.
According to police, 5 children have gone missing from various areas of Kasur in the last 3 months, 1 of whom was identified as the boy whose body was found on Tuesday.
The 2 other children have yet to be identified.
Their remains have been sent to a lab for testing, according to the police. A blood sample for DNA testing will be taken from the parents of all the missing children to determine if the skeletal remains are of any of the 5 missing children.
Kasur has long been at the centre stage of child abuse in Pakistan, with several cases surfacing from across the district over the past years.
In January 2018, the body of a minor girl was found from a garbage heap. She was raped and murdered.
The incident had sent shock waves across the country drawing calls for the arrest of and stern punishment to the perpetrator.
Police arrested Zainab’s murderer, Imran Ali, with the help of DNA testing. He was subsequently sentenced to death and executed in October, 2018.
However, the recent discovery of the bodies of children has once again reminded people of the deep-seating problem that needs to be addressed.
Source: samaa.tv, Staff, September 19, 2019
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