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Pak court commutes death sentence of Daniel Pearl murder accused
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IANS | 02 Apr, 2020
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday commuted the death sentences of
the key accused in the case of slain American journalist Daniel Pearl,
who was abducted and beheaded in Pakistan in 2002.
The death
sentence of the prime accused Ahmed Omer Saeed Sheikh was commuted to
seven years in prison while the other three convicts, Fahad Naseem,
Salman Saqib and Sheikh Adil, who were earlier handed life sentences,
were set free by the court, Dawn news said in a report.
Since
Sheikh has been in prison for the past 18 years, his seven-year sentence
will be counted from the time served and was expected to be released,
the report further said.
An anti-terrorism court (ATC) had
sentenced to death prime accused Ahmed Omer Saeed Sheikh, commonly known
as Shaikh Omar, and life term to co-accused Fahad Naseem, Salman Saqib
and Sheikh Adil for the abduction of the slain journalist.
Shaikh
Omar and other convicts had moved the SHC in 2002 challenging their
convictions handed down by the Hyderabad ATC after finding them guilty
of abducting and killing Pearl, the 38-year-old South Asia bureau chief
of The Wall Street Journal who was researching a story on religious
extremists, in January 2002 in Karachi.
While arguing the case,
the lawyers for the appellants had submitted that the prosecution had
miserably failed to prove its case against their clients beyond any
reasonable doubt and prosecution witnesses were mostly policemen, whose
testimonies could not be relied upon, Dawn news reported.
They
had further contended that Naseem and Adil Sheikh's confessions before a
judicial magistrate were defective and not voluntary.
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