Sialkot lynching : 6 sentenced to death
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan’s Punjab province on Monday sentenced six people to death and seven others to life imprisonment for their involvement in the lynching of the Sri Lankan national – Priyantha Kumara over alleged blasphemy.
The Anti-Terrorism Court Lahore also handed down two-year sentence each to remaining 67 other suspects.
Judge Natasha Nasim, who held the trial proceedings in-camera inside the high-security Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore, on a day-to-day basis, announced the verdict in the presence of the suspects.
The judge, however, did not announce the verdict of nine juvenile suspects, whose trial is yet to be completed.
