Zameer Ahmed was sentenced to death for murdering seven-year-old girl. STOCK IMAGE
The convict - Zameer Ahmed - was sentenced to death for murdering a seven-year-old girl.
The trial court exonerated Ahmed due to lack of evidence against him.
The Supreme Court (SC) and Lahore High Court (LHC) had also acquitted five death row prisoners last week. A death warrant of a convict was suspended as well on the same day.
Four of the acquitted death row prisoners were involved in a 2002 suicide attack on an Imambargah, that killed 11 people and left 19 injured.
While, another acquitted prisoner was given a death warrant by an anti terrorism court (ATC) in a kidnapping-for-ransom case in 2012.
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For sure military courts and military are sigh of relief because otherwise criminals would continue to flourish like in the past.
This shows how capable our civilian judicial system is in Pakistan.
How can a person who was sentenced to death and called as condemned prisioner is acquitted from the murder case when the victim had already lost his/her life.
This means that at the very first stage the case took a wrong direction in the court of law that lead the accused to death penalty.
One can imaging the anony through which the aggrieved party must be going through afer his/her loved one is killed and after long awaited due process of law, instead of going to the gallows is acquitted due to lack of evidence.
In this kind of judicial system, one can also think that how many innocent people had been sent to gallows without retrial right from the scratch of the prisioners.
As the military courts are in the process of making, I am sure that more condemned prisioners would escape from capital punishment.
Prior to this the civilian judicial system could not tried the terrorists due to lack of evidence and most of them were granted bail, which is equivalent to setting the prisioners free to commit more crimes in the country without fear of law.
It's a very disgusting situation in the country. It seems that fair trails within a reasonable time limit are far from imagination in Pakistan.
Would The Chief Justice of Pakistan like to comment on my arguments?
That is Punjab Courts for you. PML N's stronghold Now you know why military courts are needed.
Thats Why Military Courts.
These coward courts are partners in crime. The evidence that they seek for broad day heinous crimes is a mockery of justice. The result is that rapists and killers of children, women, young men and sectarian killers roam our streets. We have lost trust in our Judicial System. They exonerated ppl who were on death row for decades. Army courts should deal with criminals as well not just terrorists.
Should one have expected any different from the LAHORE HIGH COURT ??