{"id":124443,"date":"2022-04-18T16:27:16","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T23:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=124443"},"modified":"2022-04-18T16:27:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T23:27:16","slug":"six-sentenced-to-death-in-priyantha-kumara-lynching-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/04\/18\/six-sentenced-to-death-in-priyantha-kumara-lynching-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Six sentenced to death in Priyantha Kumara lynching case"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Courtesy Adaderana<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p>An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan awarded death sentences to six accused over their role in the lynching of Sri Lankan national Priyantha Kumara at a Sialkot factory, Pakistani reported on Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per details, the verdict was announced after hearing of the high-profile lynching case concluded at the Kot Lakhpat prison. Statements of more than 60 suspects were recorded in the lynching case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ATC in its verdict in the Priyantha Kumara case awarded death sentences to six, 14-year-jail to seven others and two years of punishment to the other 76 accused of their alleged role in the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Punjab government and the prosecution team in December decided to conduct the jail trial of the high-profile case due to security concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The anti-terrorism court (ATC) initiated the Sialkot lynching incident\u2019s trial at Kot Lakhpat Jail in early March and judge Natasha Naseem led the proceedings into the case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Priyantha Kumara, a 49-year-old Sri Lankan national, was lynched by a mob of workers at a factory on December 3, where he was working as a manager.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident led to outrage and then prime minister Imran Khan had condemned the vigilante violence and vowed to bring the perpetrators to justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A first information report (FIR) was registered against hundreds of unidentified men, including workers of the factory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A total of 89 men were indicted in the murder case, of which nine are minors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both the prosecution and the defence had concluded their arguments in the case heard on a daily basis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statements of the investigation officers and eyewitnesses had also been recorded. The prosecution had brought to court 46 eyewitnesses.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It submitted as evidence the CCTV footage of 10 cameras installed at the site of the murder and videos taken from the mobile phones of 55 accused men.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The investigation and trial were completed by a five-member team headed by public prosecutor Abdul Rauf Wattoo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;Agencies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy Adaderana An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan awarded death sentences to six accused over their role in the lynching of Sri Lankan national Priyantha Kumara at a Sialkot factory, Pakistani reported on Monday. As per details, the verdict was announced after hearing of the high-profile lynching case concluded at the Kot Lakhpat prison. Statements of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}