Sarabjit Singh to be hanged on April 1: Cheema

Tuesday, March 18, 2008 ISLAMABAD: Indian national Sarabjit Singh, sentenced to death for involvement in four bomb blasts in Pakistan in 1990, would be executed on April one, Interior Ministry Spokesman Brig (Retd) Javed Iqbal Cheema said Tuesday. “He would be hanged on the exact date (April 1) and there would be no delay in his hanging,” Cheema told a weekly media briefing. Sarabjit, in Pakistan custody for last 17 years, had been convicted of involvement in bomb blasts in Lahore and Multan that killed about 14 people. In March 2006, the Supreme Court of Pakistan rejected Sarabjit’s plea for clemency. President Pervez Musharraf on March 3 this year rejected the mercy petition of Sarabjit, whose actual name according to Pakistan is Manjit Singh.

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