An anti-terrorism courtroom in Pakistan’s Punjab province on Monday sentenced six individuals to dying and 7 others to life imprisonment for his or her involvement within the lynching of a Sri Lankan nationwide over alleged blasphemy.
The Anti-Terrorism Court Lahore additionally handed down two-year sentence every to remaining 67 different suspects.
Judge Natasha Nasim, who held the trial proceedings in-camera contained in the high-security Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore, on a day-to-day foundation, introduced the decision within the presence of the suspects.
The decide, nevertheless, didn’t announce the decision of 9 juvenile suspects, whose trial is but to be accomplished.
A mob of over 800 males together with supporters of hardline Islamist celebration Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) allegedly attacked a garment manufacturing facility and lynched its normal supervisor Priyantha Kumara, 47, and burned his physique over allegations of blasphemy on December 3, in Sialkot district, some 100 kms from provincial capital Lahore.
The incident noticed widespread outrage and condemnation throughout Pakistan with politicians, students and civil society members calling for swift punishment to be meted out to the perpetrators.
