Anti-terror court sentences seven men to death for lynching Sri Lankan citizen

LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court in Lahore sentenced 6 murderers to death involved in Sri Lankan citizen Priyantha Kumara in December
Seven sentenced to life imprisonment, while 76 people from the mob were sentenced to 2 years in jail.

A first information report (FIR) was registered against 900 workers of the business, Rajco Industries, on the application of Uggoki Station House Officer (SHO) Armaghan Maqt under sections 302, 297, 201, 427, 431, 157, 149 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and 7 and 11-WW of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA).

Scores of suspects were arrested in the following days. The court indicted 89 people, nine of them minors, who were suspected of killing the man.

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