Sarabjit Singh’s review petition quashed following failure of lawyer to attend
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.
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.
Pakistan has so far refused to comment on the verdict.
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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.