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Pak court orders amputation for mugger

The sentence passed by a judge in the conservative northwestern city of Peshawar, bordering Afghanistan, must be confirmed by Pakistan's top Islamic court.

DNA Web Team

Updated : Nov 19, 2013, 11:17 PM IST

PESHAWAR: A Pakistani court has ordered the amputation of a mugger's hand and leg under the country's strict Islamic laws, officials said on Friday.

The sentence passed by a judge in the conservative northwestern city of Peshawar, bordering Afghanistan, must be confirmed by Pakistan's top Islamic court.

The court on Thursday found Ajab Khan, an Afghan, guilty of snatching Rs 300,000 rupees ($5,000) from a Pakistani businessman in Peshawar. It sentenced him to five years in jail and fined him Rs 30,000.

"We will challenge the conviction in the Federal Shariat Court," defence lawyer Abdul Mabud Khattak said, referring to the chief Islamic court in Islamabad.

"The conviction order says the accused's right hand and right leg be amputated under Hudood laws," Khattak added.

The Hudood Ordinances were introduced in 1979 by military dictator General Zia-ul Haq and run parallel to Pakistan's mainstream, British-influenced justice system.

Opponents say they are flawed as a legal code as they systematically discriminate against women and minorities.

Pakistani legal analysts said lower courts have handed out such harsh punishments occasionally in but superior courts overturned them on appeal.

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