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Lahore,/Amritsar, A Pakistani court on Wednesday summoned prosecution witnesses in the murder case of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh who was killed in a brutal assault by other inmates in a high-security jail here last year.
The case proceedings resumed after a considerable delay of several months owing to the transfer of the judge.
Additional district and sessions (Lahore) judge Shahzeb Saeed has replaced judge Syed Anjum Raza Syed and resumed the trial of two murder suspects through a video link.
The judge also directed the Kot Lakhpat station house officer to ensure his presence at the next hearing. The murder trial of death row convict Sarabjit began last January and subsequently his two alleged killers — Amer Sarfraz alias Tamba and Muddassar Bashir — were indicted.
Both the accused who were also death row prisoners had allegedly attacked Sarabjit with sharp-edged weapons when he was being moved from one cell to another in the Kot Lakhpat jail here on April 26 last year.
Sarabjit, 49, died on May 2 after being comatose for nearly a week. Amer and Muddassar denied the murder charges when they were chargesheeted.
However, earlier they had confessed to the murder of Sarabjit before a one-member judicial commission constituted to probe the murder. They said, “We wanted to take revenge on him for killing the Pakistanis in bomb blasts in Lahore and Faisalabad.”
