A Lahore High Court (LHC) division bench on Monday suspended three-year sentences of two policemen awarded by an anti-terrorism court in Gujranwala in the Sialkot lynching case. The bench comprising Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry and Justice Muhammad Khalid Mehmood Khan granted bail to two policemen against surety bonds of Rs 100,000 each. The petition was filed by constables Yaseen and Bashir Ahmed challenging their conviction in the Sialkot lynching case. The petitioners’ counsel argued before the court that the petitioners were innocent and wrongly convicted.
The counsel argued that a sentence of up to 5 years is bailable under the law when the convicts’ appeal is pending in the High Court. He said appellants were convicted under Section 155(C) of Police Order 2002 and sentenced to three-year imprisonment and a Rs 50,000 fine and deserved bail and a suspension of their sentence.
