The Pakistan supreme court on Wednesday dismissed a review petition filed by Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh and upheld the death sentence given to him for his alleged involvement in the Lahore blasts of 1990, which killed 14 people. Ironically, a three-member bench, headed by justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed, gave the order exparte and rejected the review petitions because Sarabjit’s lawyer, Rana Abdul Hamid, failed to appear before the court for the second time in a row. Three review petitions had been filed in the apex court after Sarabjit was sentenced to death by an anti-terrorist court in 1991 based, as they claimed, “on the original confession he had made before a magistrate”.
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