Supreme Court acquits 3 men in 2014 case of burning Christian couple alive in Kasur

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has acquitted three individuals who had been sentenced to death in a 2014 case of burning a Christian couple alive in a brick kiln in Kasur’s Kot Radha Kishan over blasphemy allegations. The court overturned the death sentences of the three men and acquitted them after giving them the “benefit of doubt”, the 26-page judgement said. The court also rejected a state appeal against the acquittal of 102 other individuals in the case. The appeals were taken up by a thre...

By [email protected] (Nasir Iqbal)