Summary Five death row inmates are imprisoned in the Kot Lakhpat Jail
LAHORE (Dunya News) – The Lahore High Court (LHC) Rawalpindi Bench on Wednesday has revoked the injunctions on the execution of as many as eight terrorists, restoring the death penalty of the criminals.
According to the details, as many as five death row inmates are imprisoned in the Kot Lakhpat Jail.
Justice Arshad Mehmood Tabassum of the Rawalpindi bench accepted the federal government’s appeal to revoke the injunctions restraining the death row inmates from being hanged.
The counsel for the criminals, advocate Liaq Khan Swati maintained in the petition that the crimes for which his clients are being hanged have not been declared and they were also not given their due right to make an appeal against the sentence.
However, the counsel for the federal government Deputy Attorney General Sajid Ilyas Bhatti said that the cases were registered against the criminals on December 21 2013, they were sentenced to death on February 12 2014 and the appeals that they made according to their right were denied on June 10 2014.
He said that the appeals of the criminals were rejected by the military court and that they killed as many as seven military officers at the Jehlum-Chenab Bridge. Advocate Bhatti urged the court to revoke the injunctions so that the criminals be hanged as soon as possible.
Separately, the petition filed by the Faisalabad Jail Superintendent in the Lahore Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) maintains that a terrorist named Faiz in 2000 killed a soldier, Tariq Mehmood while another terrorist named Sharif was involved in several terror acts in Nankana Sahib in 2004. The petition urges the court to issue death warrants of both the terrorists as their appeals against the judgement have been rejected.
The court has issued the death warrants of Sharif and Faiz and they can be hanged any time now in the Faisalabad jail.
