A serial killer and rapist of a six-year-old girl was, Wednesday, hanged at a prison in Lahore, Pakistan.
Imran Ali was convicted of raping and murdering Zainab in Kasur, a city 50 kilometres from Lahore.
The 23-year-old was executed this morning in Kot Lokhpat Central Jail in the presence of Magistrate Adil Sarwar, the girl’s father the girl’s uncle.
Ali’s brother was also present along with two of his friends. An ambulance was also present during the hanging.
The girl’s father had earlier filed a petition for his public hanging, but it was dismissed, as per PTI.
A two-member Lahore High Court bench- Justice Sardar Shamim Ahmed and Justice Shahbaz Rizvi- denied the plea of the minor girl’s father who sought a public hanging for his daughter’s killer.
In January this year, a CCTV footage showed Ali killing Zainab Fatima Ameen. Ali, a serial killer, also confessed to eight attacks on children in the city, including five murders, AFP reported.
The incident had spread widespread outrage across the country. Violence erupted in Kasur when the reports of the crime first surfaced in January. Pakistanis across the country took to social media to express their anger.
Nation-wide protests were held demanding severe punishment for the accused. Two weeks later, Ali, who raped, killed and threw Zainab into a garbage dump in Kasur, was arrested.
“My daughter would have been seven years, two months old today. Her mother is devastated from grief,” the girl’s father narrated. (Times Now)
