The execution of four condemned prisoners accused of gang rape of a Christian girl of Chak Jhumra has been deferred in the light of the stay order issued by the Supreme Court.
According to details, a two-member bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justice Hamid Ali Mirza and Justice Nasirul Mulk on a review petition stayed the execution till next hearing, for which a date will be fixed in the last week of the current month. had stayed the execution of four people sentenced to death in a gang rape case as their was before the apex court.
The four--Shehzad alias Shadda, Umar Hayat, Muhammad Ashraf and Mubarik Ali--were awarded death sentence by an anti-terrorism court for raping a Faisalabad Christian woman named Samia in November 1999. The Lahore High Court upheld the sentence, which was also confirmed by the Supreme Court on May 30 this year.
6 TO BE HANGED ON 14TH In a triple murder case, six members of a family including father and son who were awarded death sentence by District and Sessions Judge will be hanged here on September 14. The convicts had killed one Najeeb Ullah, his father Maqbool and their close relative Ghulam Muhammad in Korianwala village on October 24, 1989. Additional District and Sessions Judge Abdul Razzaq on October 29, 1991 awarded them death penalty.
The Supreme Court rejected their writ petition on March 18, 1999 and the President turned down their mercy appeal. The District and Sessions Judge, Abdul Waheed Khan, had earlier ordered the hanging of the six convicts on February 8. They filed a mercy appeal to President on April 16 and after its rejection, they were to be hanged on August 9, but the date was again changed and now September 14 has been fixed for execution.
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