LHC Dismisses Zainab’s Father Appeal To Publicly Execute Imran Ali

Imran Ali will be hanged to death in Kot Lakhpat Central Jail in Lahore on Oct 17 as scheduled.   

Lahore (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 16th October, 2018) The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday dismissed the appeal filed by Zainab’s father Amin Ansari to publicly execute the convict in her daughter’s murder case.

Imran Ali will be hanged to death in Kot Lakhpat Central Jail in Lahore on Oct 17 as scheduled.

An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on Friday issued black warrants for the execution of condemned prisoner, Imran Ali, in Zainab murder case. The court asked the jail authorities to hang Imran Ali on Oct 17.

Little Zainab went missing on Jan 4, shortly after she left home to go to a neighbour's house where she studied the Holy Quran. Her parents were in Saudi Arabia to perform Umrah when the incident took place. After relatives reported her missing, the police recovered her body on Jan 9 from a heap of garbage.

Meanwhile, Zainab's parents wanted the convict to be hanged in public.

Zainab’s father Amin Ansari had reached out to the LHC, demanding public execution of convict Imran Ali in her daughter’s rape and murder case.

The petitioner adopted that the public execution will prove to be a lesson for other such predators and will set a precedent.

Imran Ali was sentenced to death in February 2018 on charges of kidnapping, raping and killing minor Zainab in January 2018 within the jurisdiction of the A-division police station, Kasur.

The convict was involved in eight other similar cases wherein six victims had died and only two survived. An anti terrorism court had awarded death sentence to Imran Ali in at least three such cases also.