Zainab’s father requests CJP to arrest of convict’s facilitators

F.P. Report

LAHORE: Amin Ansari has appealed to the Chief Justice of Pakistan to arrest the facilitators of convicted Imran, in Zainab case, a seven-year-old, who was raped and murdered in Kasur in January this year.

This he said while appearing before Chief Justice Saqib Nisar at the Supreme Court’s Lahore Registry on Friday. Father of Zainab submitted a petition stating that family of the convicted Imran is threatening his family.

He demanded the arrest of the criminal facilitators and also claimed that Imran’s facilitators were not investigated in the case.

Seven year-old Zainab was kidnapped from near her aunt’s house in Kasur on January 4 and was found dead in a garbage heap five days later.

Later on January 23, the authorities claimed to have arrested Imran Ali, said to be a serial killer involved in other such crimes, through a DNA match.

On February 17, the anti-terrorism court (ATC) hearing the high-profile case sentenced Imran to death, four times.

Imran was sentenced to death for kidnapping, rape, murder and under Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act.