PAKISTAN: PAKISTANI JUDGE SENTENCES JAVED IQBAL TO DEATH BY STRANGLING AFTER FINDING HIM GUILTY OF MURDERING & MULTILATING 100 CHILDREN

Record ID: 872865

  • Title: PAKISTAN: PAKISTANI JUDGE SENTENCES JAVED IQBAL TO DEATH BY STRANGLING AFTER FINDING HIM GUILTY OF MURDERING & MULTILATING 100 CHILDREN
  • Date: 16th March 2000
  • Summary: LAHORE, PAKISTAN (MARCH 16, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. MV: POLICE OUTSIDE COURT 0.07 2. MV: LAWYERS INSIDE COURT 0.12 3. MV: JAVED IQBAL ARRIVING/SEATED IN COURT (5 SHOTS) 0.30 4. SV: POLICE/SECURITY OFFICERS LOCKING IQBAL IN POLICE VAN (2 SHOTS) 0.43 5. SV: SOUNDBITE (Urdu) IQBAL SAYING: "Allah is my lord. I knew before that I would be sentenced to death, police provided shelter to the real accused and culprit. I have no regrets over this case. The real people managed to go out of the law by greasing the palm of the police." 1.31 6. SLV: POLICE VAN LEAVING SCENE 1.40 LAHORE, PAKISTAN (FILE - DECEMBER 3, 1999) (REUTERS) 7. MV/SV: VARIOUS OF VICTIMS' RELATIVES CRYING AFTER POLICE DISCOVERED REMAINS IN JAVEED IQBAL'S HOUSE (3 SHOTS) 2.00 8. MV: VARIOUS OF SHOES AND CLOTHES OF VICTIMS (3 SHOTS) 2.23 9. CU/PAN: PHOTOS OF JAVED IQBAL'S VICTIMS (4 SHOTS) 2.56 10. TV/SV: MEN EXAMINING ACID BARRELS WHERE VARIOUS REMAINS WERE FOUND (3 SHOTS) 3.08 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: LAHORE, PAKISTAN
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  • Country: Pakistan
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  • Story Text: A Pakistani judge has sentenced a man to death by
    strangling after finding him guilty of murdering and
    mutilating 100 children.

    The judge also said defendant Javed Iqbal and a co-accused
    should be cut into pieces and thrown into acid, the same fate
    as the victims.

    The lower court judge in Lahore, capital of Punjab
    province, sentenced Iqbal Javeed on Thursday (March 16).

    Iqbal was sentenced to death by strangling after the judge
    found him guilty of murdering and mutilating 100 children.

    The judge said Iqbal and a co-accused should be cut into
    pieces and thrown into acid, the same fate as the victims.

    The lower court judge said Iqbal had been found guilty of
    100 murders.

    The victims were mostly street children picked up near
    Iqbal's house in a Lahore slum.

    "Javed Iqbal has been found of guilty of 100 murders.The
    sentence is that he should be strangled 100 times at
    Minar-e-Pakistan (a landmark in Lahore)," Additional District
    and Sessions Judge Allah Baksh said in passing sentence.

    "His body should be cut in 100 pieces and put in acid, as
    he did with his victims."
    Baksh also convicted Iqbal's accomplice, Sabir (one name),
    of murdering and mutilating 98 children and said he also
    should be strangled, cut into pieces and thrown into acid.

    Leaving court locked in a police van, Iqbal said: "I knew
    before that I would sentenced to death.Police provided
    shelter to the real accused and culprit."
    Iqbal and Sabir, who had pleaded not guilty to the charges
    last month, can appeal against the sentence to a higher court.


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