Islamabad, June 24 (ANI): The Pakistan Supreme Court on Wednesday dismissed the review petition filed by Sarabjit Singh challenging his death sentence, thus maintaining the death sentence awarded earlier.
According to The News, a three-member bench headed by Justice Raja Fayyaz dismissed Singh’s mercy plea after brief hearings for two days.
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Meanwhile, Singh’s lawyer, Rana Abdul Hameed has admitted to lapses in mounting the defence in his case.
Hameed said he was not able to reach the court on time and missed the proceedings, which worked against the case and an ex-parte order was passed by the court.
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Pakistan has so far refused to comment on the verdict.
Is this some kind of a joke. A lawyer who is not able reach the court on time while defending such a case. If he did not want to appear for the accused he should have refused to be his lawyer. He had no qualms in taking the money from the family of Sarabjit as fees. I was just watching a news channel and he was mentioning that he had deputed somebody else to appear and that somebody had different cases. Is this how the justice system works in Pakistan. Seriously guys I really dont know if I should call that a justice system. It is worse than a Kangaroo Court.
Please understand I am talking about the justice system. A lawyer who has no qualms in accepting the fees to be the lawyer and then publicly admitting that he put up a weak case. Way to go...
Indians have the audacity to comment on anyone's justice system????
Mohammad Afzal didn't even have a lawyer for most of his case. The Indian supreme court admitted that there was no convincing evidence against him...that there was no evidence he belonged to any militant organization, and that whatever evidence existed against him was circumstantial at best. The basically went on to say that the Indian public's bloodlust would only be assuaged by his death, so they rejected his appeal. I believe the exact quote was:
"The incident, which resulted in heavy casualties, had shaken the entire nation, and the collective conscience of the society will only be satisfied if capital punishment is awarded to the offender."
Indians have the audacity to comment on anyone's justice system????
Mohammad Afzal didn't even have a lawyer for most of his case. The Indian supreme court admitted that there was no convincing evidence against him...that there was no evidence he belonged to any militant organization, and that whatever evidence existed against him was circumstantial at best. The basically went on to say that the Indian public's bloodlust would only be assuaged by his death, so they rejected his appeal. I believe the exact quote was:
"The incident, which resulted in heavy casualties, had shaken the entire nation, and the collective conscience of the society will only be satisfied if capital punishment is awarded to the offender."
Talk about a kangaroo court system!
I am not talking about the Indian justice system Please open a separate thread to discuss the same. I am talking about the lawyer who shamelessly admitted that he had built up a weak case and did not bother to appear in the court.
Please understand I am talking about the justice system. A lawyer who has no qualms in accepting the fees to be the lawyer and then publicly admitting that he put up a weak case. Way to go...
Fee? From what I know he was doing volunteer working for him.
BTW, its common tactic for lawyers not showing up on time when they know that they cannot win a case or a judgment would go against them. Once a judgment goes against them by default they start to complain and keep dragging on the cases.
Where did he say he put a weak case? What he said he was late. Amazing, a lawyer has never been late for a case in history right?
an ex parte judgement against a guy in the govt custody? how is that even possible? you mean the givt doesn't produce the guy from jail or the defence lawyer doesn't show up and the so called judge passes sentence? I don't understand!
If this is true you guys have gone from banana republic to kangaroo court to junglee rules
Fee? From what I know he was doing volunteer working for him.
BTW, its common tactic for lawyers not showing up on time when they know that they cannot win a case or a judgment would go against them. Once a judgment goes against them by default they start to complain and keep dragging on the cases.
I heard the family on TV stating that the lawyer had taken Rs One lakh from them.
Shamraz I expected better from you. Lawyers not showing up when he knows that there would not be a legal recourse if an exparte order is passed happens only in Kangaroo courts...Here they cannot drag the case any longer. Poor Sarabjit. He has already spent more than a life sentence in Pakistan and now this...