[Deathpenalty]death penalty news----worldwide

[Rick Halperin]

Dec. 31


PAKISTAN:

10-time death penalty for Indian terrorist


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.

(source: Daily Times, Pakistan)