LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Wednesday rejected a petition calling for the public execution of the convict, Imran Ali, in the Zainab rape and murder case. A division bench, headed by Justice Sadaqat Ali, disposed of the petition for being premature. The petition was filed by Advocate Ishtiaq Chaudhry who pleaded that there was no need of making any amendment in law for publicly hanging Imran. The life sentence, along with a Rs1 million fine, was handed to Ali for sodomy; another 7-year jail sentence and Rs1 million fine were imposed for disrespecting the dead body by throwing it in a trash heap. The victim girl’s parents had also been demanding public hanging of the convict to bring some curb on such crimes in Pakistan.

Source: Pakistan Today February 21, 2018 05:15 UTC