SC upholds Imran Ali's death sentence in Zainab murder case

LAHORE - The Supreme Court (SC) on Tuesday turned down the appeal of convict Imran Ali against the death sentence awarded to him for the rape and murder of six-year-old Zainab Amin in Kasur earlier this year.

A three-judge bench, comprising Justices Asif Saeed Khosa, Manzoor Ahmed Malik and Mansoor Ali Shah, upheld his death sentence while hearing his appeal against a verdict of an anti-terrorism court (ATC).

The ATC gave him four counts of the death penalty, one life term, a 7-year jail term and Rs4.1 million in fines after finding him guilty of murdering a child, kidnapping a child, rape of a minor, and committing an unnatural act with a minor.

https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/headline/justiceforzainab-atc-to-announce-verdict-in-kasur-rape-murder-case-today/

Later, the convict moved the Lahore High Court (LHC) against the verdict but it was rejected.

https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/pakistan/lhc-rejects-appeal-of-convict-imran-ali-in-zainab-murder-case/

Zainab was kidnapped from near her aunt’s house on January 4 in Kasur. Her body was recovered from a garbage heap on January 9. The post-mortem of the minor revealed that she had been raped before being murdered.

The Punjab government had declared the arrest of prime suspect Imran Ali on January 23.