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Shaukat Salim - a key witness in the trial of Sarabjit Singh
Sarabjit
While the Pakistani authorities claim that Sarabjit was awarded death sentence by a trial court in accordance with the law of the land and by following due procedure, his family has repeatedly defended him on grounds that it was simply a case of mistaken identity; he was not the person for whom the hunt was carried out. Sarabjit claims being a victim of mistaken identity, who strayed into Pakistan from his village located on the border, three months after the 1990 bombings. Sarabjits lawyer, Awais Sheikh, claims that his confession, on the basis of which he was convicted, was extracted forcefully by police.
He also reminds that on April 26, 2008, Shaukat Salim, the key witness against Sarabjit, whose father and other relatives had been killed in the 1990 bombing, had retracted his earlier testimony that Sarabjit was the one who had planted the bomb that killed them. Salim had conceded in his 2008 on camera retraction that he had testified against Singh under pressure from the police.
Well known human rights activist Ansar Burney believes that Sarabjit was a victim of politics on both sides of the border. He claimed that none of the four FIRs lodged in the bombing cases contained Sarabjits name or his description. Singh was arrested on the night of August 30, 1990 at Kasur Border for illegally crossing the Indo-Pak border. But eight days later, he was falsely implicated in the bombings. Burney pointed out that a single magistrate recorded the statements of the witnesses in all the four cases against Singh, one in Faisalabad and three in Lahore. Since the cases against Singh were lodged in four different police stations, his statements should also have been recorded by four different magistrates, he added.
Dont worry nobody will see your post...everybody knows that Sarabjeet was a farmer who accidently crossed the border like two days back two Pakistani former crossed the border but India returned them to Pakistan after investigation..but same did not happen in Sarabjeet case...because Pakistan wanted to prove to the world that India is also doing terrorism in Pakistan...Sarabjeet became victim of it....and finally instead of hanging as per Pakistani law...he was murdered....brought more shame for Pakistan..
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