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| Pakistan court upholds Indian âspyâsâ death sentence | |
| 2005-09-28 | |
| ISLAMABAD - Pakistanâs Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a death sentence imposed on an alleged Indian spy for a bombing that killed four people in 1990, court officials said. The court rejected an appeal by Sarabjit Singh, whose relatives in India along with the government have called on Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to review the case. It was the last of four petitions filed by Singh relating to different cases including terrorism and espionage. The Supreme Court dismissed the other three last month. Singhâs lawyer Rana Abdul Hameed told reporters he was going to file fresh appeals âin all casesâ. The appeal related to Singhâs conviction on terrorism charges by a lower court for a July 1990 bomb blast in the eastern city of Lahore in which a woman and three men were killed. Singhâs relatives say he is a farmer who crossed the border into Pakistan 15 years ago while drunk, and then was confused with a man named Manjit Singh, whom Pakistan blames for a series of bombings in Lahore. State-run TV in Pakistan broadcast an alleged confession by Singh earlier this month in which he said he worked for Indiaâs foreign intelligency agency and had set off five blasts in Lahore.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #1 Somehow, I don't think the RAW recruits drunk peasant farmers for black operations |
| Posted by: john 2005-09-28 16:48 |