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Lahore High Court allows Sarabjit-lawyer meeting |
The Lahore High Court has allowed the lawyer of Sarabjit Singh, the Indian
currently on death row in
a Pakistani prison, to hold a meeting with him. Earlier, Sarabjit's lawyer, Awais
Sheikh, had stated in the court that he was not allowed to meet his client despite
court orders. He had also filed a petition against the Interior Secretary of Punjab
and Superintendent of Kot Lakhpat jail. The court has given permission to Sheikh
to meet Sarabjit in the presence of a representative of the special branch, The
News reports. Sarabjit has been on death row since he was convicted of alleged
involvement in four bomb blasts in Pakistan's Punjab province that killed 14 people
in 1990. His family insists that he was wrongly convicted for the bombings. Though
he was to be hanged on April 1 last year, Pakistani authorities put off his execution
indefinitely after Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani intervened in the matter. |
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