Pakistan: 3 Get Lifer Over Blast Outside JuD Chief Hafiz Saeeds Residence
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Lahore: An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Tuesday handed life terms to three persons for their role in orchestrating a powerful bomb blast outside Mumbai attack mastermind and JuD chief Hafiz Saeed's residence here in June 2021 that killed three people. Three people were killed and over 20 others injured in the blast outside Saeed's Johar town residence here on June 23, 2021, which also damaged a number of houses, shops and vehicles in the area. Last year, the anti-terrorism court in Lahore handed down death sentences to four other persons in this case. "On Tuesday, the ATC-I Lahore sentenced to death Samiul Haq, Uzair Akbar and Naveed Akhtar in the Johar Town bomb blast after the prosecution presented evidence against them," a court official told PTI. The official said the suspects were convicted under various sections of the Pakistan Penal Code. "The convicts will have to undergo life imprisonment and 10 years of rigorous imprisonment that will run concurrently," he said.
Judge Abher Gul Khan pronounced the verdict during the in-camera trial proceedings at the high-security Kot Lakhpat Jail here. The official said the three convicts were facilitators of the prime suspects.
Tuesday, March 7, 2023 at 5:11 pm