ISLAMABAD, Sept 13: The Supreme Court in its detailed judgment on Appeals filed by convicted Indian spy Manjeet Singh alias Sarbajeet Singh, said on Tuesday that his sentence well-deserved and he did not warrant any leniency.

Authored by Justice Mohammad Nawaz Abbasi, the 27-page judgment said petitioner Sarbajeet Singh had been convicted by the trial court only on one count in cases of terrorism when he should have been convicted and sentenced separately for each murder in each case.

On August 18, a two-member bench of the Supreme Court upheld the death sentence awarded to the petitioner by dismissing his appeals against the Lahore High Court order. Sarbajeet Singh was represented in the court by Advocate Rana Abdul Hameed.

Sarbajeet, resident of Bhikiwand, Amritsar (India), was arrested by Mujahid Force on Aug 30, 1990, near Kasur border in the territory of Pakistan and was handed over to Intelligence Battalion, Lahore, for interogation.

He told interrogators that he had been trained by Indian Military Intelligence (IMI) and RAW (Research and Analysis Wing), to conduct multiple bomb blasts in Lahore, Kasur and Faisalabad in which 14 people, including women and children, were killed and 89 others were injured.

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