The Peshawar High Court (PHC) has upheld the decision of its Abbottabad Circuit Bench to suspend the three-year imprisonment of 25 people in the Mashal Khan lynching case, a private media outlet reported Tuesday.
In February, a Haripur Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) had ruled on the 2017 lynching and murder of Mashal Khan, and handed the shooter — Imran Ali — two death sentences, five persons multiple terms of life imprisonment, and 25 others jail sentences.
Later, the PHC’s Abbottabad circuit bench had suspended the multi-year sentences handed to the 25, against which the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government and Mashal’s family had filed review petitions.
On Tuesday, under PHC Chief Justice Waqar Ahmed Seth’s stewardship, a two-member bench of the court, in a brief order, set aside the petitions against the suspension of the sentences.