Court: (Zainab case: SC rejects convict’s appeal against death sentence)

ISLAMABAD:The Supreme Court’s Lahore Registry on Tuesday rejected the appeal of convict Imran Ali against the death sentence handed down to him for raping and murdering a minor girl Zainab in Kasur.

A three-judge bench, comprising Justices Asif Saeed Khosa, Justice Manzoor Ahmed Malik, and Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah, dismissed the convict’s appeal and upheld the death penalty awarded to him by an anti-terrorism court.