| The Federal Shariat Court (FSC) has overturned the acquittal of two rape suspects Allah Buksh and Muhammad Aslam and sentenced them to seven years. They raped a 13-year-old girl in Mandi Bahauddin but a sessions court had acquitted them on June 26, 1996. The FSC bench of justices Zafar Pasha Chaudhry and Saeedur Rahman Furrukh said that the trial court had not examined the case facts in detail and acquitted them, which was illegal in light of several Supreme Court verdicts. The court said that the 18-hour delay in FIR after the incident could not be considered a ground to disbelieve the prosecution's story. |