**A Pakistani court has sentenced two men who maimed a woman after a spurned marriage request to have their ears and noses chopped off, officials say.**The men cut off the woman’s ears and nose after her parents refused to let her marry one of them, the court heard.
The two brothers were each sentenced to more than 70 years in prison.
Sentence was passed under a rarely invoked Islamic law dating from the 1980s, but it may not be carried out as there is no precedent for it.
‘Eye for an eye’
The brothers, Sher Mohammad and Amanat, were found guilty of chopping off the ears and nose of their 20-year-old cousin, Fazeelat Bibi, in Lahore in September, government prosecutor Ehtisham Qadir told the BBC.
He said the punishment had been awarded in accordance with the Islamic principle of “an eye for an eye”.
The crime was committed after Fazeelat Bibi’s parents refused to give her hand in marriage to Sher Mohammad, Mr Qadir said.
Prosecutors alleged that the two men, along with three accomplices, accosted Fazeelat Bibi as she returned home from work at a brick kiln in the Raiwind area of Lahore.
“They put a noose around her neck, and then cut her ears and nose,” Mr Qadir said.
The three alleged accomplices are still being sought by police.
Islamic laws were introduced in Pakistan during the military regime of General Ziaul Haq in the 1980s.
But punishments prescribed under those laws have rarely been awarded, and never carried out.