A Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Wednesday sentenced seven people to death for the murder of two brothers in a mob attack in 2010. The death warrants were issued after Lahore High Court rejected appeals submitted by the seven convicts. The court ordered the executions on April 8, the Dawn reported.
But all seven have the right to appeal in Supreme Court. The case dates back to August, 2010 when dozens of people clubbed to death Hafiz Mohammad Mughees Sajjad, 18, and Mohammad Muneeb Sajjad, 15, in the presence of eight policemen in Sialkot. The bodies were later hung upside down at a chowk .
A judicial probe proved that the victims were innocent of any crime. The court in 2011 sentenced seven of the convicts to death on four counts, gave life-term on four counts to six of them and jailed nine policemen, including a former district police officer, for three years. The video clip of the incident shocked people who demanded severe punishment for the culprits.
