An anti-terrorism court docket in Pakistan’s Punjab province on Monday sentenced six folks to demise and 7 others to lifestyles imprisonment for his or her involvement within the lynching of a Sri Lankan nationwide over alleged blasphemy.
The Anti-Terrorism Courtroom Lahore additionally passed down two-year sentence every to last 67 different suspects.
Pass judgement on Natasha Nasim, who held the trial court cases in-camera throughout the high-security Kot Lakhpat Prison in Lahore, on a day by day foundation, introduced the decision within the presence of the suspects.
The pass judgement on, then again, didn’t announce the decision of 9 juvenile suspects, whose trial is but to be finished.
A mob of over 800 males together with supporters of hardline Islamist celebration Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) allegedly attacked a garment manufacturing unit and lynched its normal supervisor Priyantha Kumara, 47, and burned his frame over allegations of blasphemy on December 3, in Sialkot district, some 100 kms from provincial capital Lahore.
The incident noticed in style outrage and condemnation throughout Pakistan with politicians, students and civil society participants calling for swift punishment to be meted out to the perpetrators.
