Honestly speaking I was not expecting justice or a verdict to be passed in this case anytime sooner than 10 years at least. Last night, however, I was positively shocked to read a news flash update that after a year Munghees and Muneeb Butt (the brothers who were brutally murdered by a mob in Sialkot in broad day light in the presence of police officials) have been given justice.
The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Gujranwala passed on its verdict and I feel it is a good one. It sentenced seven people to death, six to life imprisonment and three year terms to all the police officials involved in the incident. Of course, appeals will be filed as a follow up but the fact that the court delivered this sentence at all is a sigh of relief.
