Lynching case: Bail pleas of seven suspects dismissed

LAHORE:

A Lahore High Court division bench on Tuesday dismissed bail petitions of seven suspects held for lynching a Christian couple in Kot Radha Kishan. The counsel for the suspects argued that they were passing by the neighbourhood when the Christian couple was lynched by a mob over blasphemy allegations. He said his clients were wrongly implicated in the case.  A deputy prosecutor, however, said that based on the findings of a Joint Investigation Team the suspects were part of the mob that burnt the couple alive. After hearing both sides, the bench dismissed the petitions filed by the suspects.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 16^th, 2015.