 The Mirpur District Criminal Court has given an Indian national ten death sentences for planting a bomb that killed 10 people and injured 30 others in the Islamgarh town near Mirpur on December 17, 1999. The court consisting of Sessions Judge Abdul Rasheed Sulehriya and District Qazi Maqboolur Rehman also gave Shabir a 14 years rigorous imprisonment for possessing explosives. The court also fined him Rs 50,000 each for carrying explosives and the bomb blast. Shabir, who hailed from a village in held Kashmir, is suspected to be an agent of the Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). Police had arrested Shabir from a village in Kotli district close to the Pakistani side of the Line of Control when he was trying to cross it. |