For the second time, a Pakistani court on Wednesday sought a larger bench to hear a petition to prove the innocence of legendary freedom fighter Bhagat Singh in the murder case of a British police officer after the plea was last heard nearly three years ago.
A lahore High Court (lHC) two-member division bench, headed by Justice Khalid Mahmood Khan and constituted by chief justice Ijazul Ahsan, conducted the hearing of the petition, nearly 85 years after Singh’s execution by the colonial Government.
Justice Mahmood, however, referred the case to the chief justice for constitution of a larger bench after petitioner Advocate Imtiaz Rashid Qureshi argued that a three-member bench had awarded death sentence to Singh, and therefore, a larger bench not less than five members should be formed to hear the plea.