SIALKOT, Feb 13: An additional district and sessions judge, Muhammad Yar Willana, has summoned Motra police station SHO and Daska tehsildar for Feb 20 to furnish court with the authentic lists of heirs of Baqarpur villages's three slain women.

The court has sought the lists to ensure that whether the actual heirs of Mukhtar Bibi, Salma Cibi and Inayat Bibi had forgiven their killers, who requested the court to withdraw death sentence awarded to them because they had been pardoned.

The three women were burnt alive by Shahbaz, Safdar, Bashir and Iqbal over a land dispute in Daska on Jan 5, 1990. The special court of the ATC awarded death sentence to the convicts on Feb 4, 1991. Thereafter, the LHC and the Supreme Court rejected their appeals for withdrawal of the sentence.

Later, President Gen Pervez Musharraf also rejected the mercy appeal after which the Gujranwala district and sessions judge issued the black death warrants for these convicts.