Tags: SC , Pak , New Delhi , Sarabjit's Mercy plea

Islamabad: Hearing the plea of Indian Prisoner Sarabjit Singh's plea against the death penalty handed to him for his alleged involvement in bomb blasts in Pakistan in 1990, the Pakistan Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the death sentence given to him.

A three-member bench led by Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed dismissed Sarabjit's review petition on merit and upheld the death sentence awarded to him by an anti-terrorism court in 1991. The apex court gave its verdict after his counsel failed to appear in court.

Sarabjit's counsel had failed to appear in court for the past few hearings, including the last one on Monday.

Rana Abdul Hamid, the lawyer who was representing Sarabjit, had been unable to appear in court after he was last year appointed an additional advocate general by Punjab province.

Sarabjit has been on death row since he was convicted for alleged involvement in four bomb blasts in 1990 that killed 14 people.

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