Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, languishing in a Pakistani jail for the past 18 years, has got a new lawyer, days after the country’s Supreme Court dismissed his appeal against capital punishment.
Sarabjit’s sister Dalbir Kaur on Saturday said she “no longer had faith” in Rana Abdul Hamid, who was representing him till now. She questioned the lawyer’s non-appearance during the two recent hearings of the review petition challenging the death sentence handed out to Sarabjit in 1991 for his alleged involvement in four blasts in Pakistan.
Sarabjit’s new lawyer Owis Sheikh said it was due to Mr. Hamid’s “negligence” that the review petition was dismissed ex parte.
Mr. Sheikh said that he would file a fresh plea in the court.
“I am filing a review petition — his restoration application before the Supreme Court. This is one remedy available. If this is rejected, then the only remedy available is to file a mercy petition before the President of Pakistan,” Mr. Sheikh said in Islamabad.
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