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Death row inmate will have to wait
The execution of Indian national on death row, Sarabjit Singh, has been postponed by three weeks - just two days before his sentence was to be carried out, according to a Pakistani private news channel.
- IANS
- Published: 00:00 April 29, 2008
Islamabad: The execution of Indian national on death row, Sarabjit Singh, has been postponed by three weeks - just two days before his sentence was to be carried out, according to a Pakistani private news channel.
Dawn News TV channel said there has been a "procedural postponement" of Sarabjit's hanging, which was to take place May 1.
However, Indian High Commission officials here could not confirm the news. "We are trying to get this established by authorities," said an Indian diplomat.
Dawn News said that a local court has to fix a fresh date for execution, which cannot be fixed before 21 days.
Sarabjit was arrested and sentenced to death for five bomb blasts in the cities of Lahore and Multan in Pakistan in 1990.
Later, a two-member bench of the Supreme Court dismissed mercy appeals filed by the convict Manjit Singh (as Sarabjit is known in Pakistan), and upheld the death sentence. Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf also dismissed the mercy petition filed by Sarabjit.
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