A Pakistani court imposed a death sentence on six accused over the lynching of Priyantha kumara.

A Pakistani court yesterday sentenced six people to death, accused of lynching a Sri Lankan factory manager in Sialkot. Seven others were sentenced to life imprisonment by the same court. The victim was 49-year old Priyantha Kumara Diyawadana, lynched by a mob on 3 December 2021 in Sialkot Punjab over the allegation of blasphemy. Supporters of the radical Sunni Islamist Party Tehereek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) were responsible for the killing of Kumara, while the TLP officially distanced itself from the incident. Kumara, who had lived and worked in Pakistan for eleven years, was beaten, killed and later set on fire by a mob. Kumara had removed the poster due to pending renovation work in the building. He was wrongly accused of blasphemy by the factory workers.