New Delhi: The Indian Supreme Court has ordered on Wednesday to release Pakistani virologist Dr Khalil Chishti, who was sentenced for killing a man in a 1992 murder incident.
The court said Dr Chishti has already spent 16 months in prison and further custody is not required.
Earlier in this year, the SC permitted Dr Chishti to return to Pakistan on “compassionate grounds” on the condition that he would return to Indian custody in November to hear his appeal against conviction.
His trial stretched for almost 18 years and in January 2011 an Indian session court found Dr Chishti guilty for an April 1992 murder.
On his April visit to India, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari had raised the issue of Chishti’s release at his meeting with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
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