LAHORE, Oct 10: Justice Syed Shabbar Raza Razvi of the Lahore High Court on Monday directed the Punjab home secretary to submit by Tuesday (today) a report on the meeting between Indian spy Manjeet Singh alias Sarbjeet Singh and his counsel Rana Abdul Hameed.

The counsel wanted a meeting with the convict at the Kot Lakhpat Jail to consult him for his three review petitions moved before the Supreme Court and get further directions. But, he submitted, the home secretary had not responded to his two applications sent on Sept 2 and 19.

The court also instructed additional advocate-general Khurshid Anwar Bhinder to submit a report after seeking instructions from the home department.

The Indian in his review petitions submitted that the apex court did not meet certain legal requirements in upholding the LHC decision for confirming his death sentence.

Sarbjeet Singh was found by an anti-terrorism court involved in four bomb blast cases. The SC dismissed the first review petition in one of the cases and he filed the remaining three in a similar number of cases.

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