Pak SC upholds sentence for Sarabjit in fourth blast case

The Pakistan Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence given to Sarabjit Singh in another bomb blast case in Lahore in 1990. A two-member bench headed by Justice Abdul Hamid Dogar heard the appeal from Singh’s lawyer Rana Abdul Hamid in connection with the incident at Yakki Gate in Lahore in July 1990, and dismissed the petition saying it had came after the 60 days mandatory period in which it was to have been filed. ‘‘The case was dismissed on the grounds that it was timed-out and on grounds of merits,’’ Hamid told reporters at Pakistan’s Supreme Court.

Defending the petition, Hamid said he tried to impress upon the court that the this was a case of misplaced identification. He said he is filing a review petition in the Supreme Court tomorrow urging it to reconsider the death sentence it upheld against Singh earlier. —PTI