India, June 4 -- A high court in Pakistan upheld the death sentence given to two convicts who raped a French woman of Pakistani origin in 2020. The case, which came to be known as the motorway gang rape case, sent shockwaves across the country and raised questions on women's safety in Pakistan

The two convicts, Abid Ali alias Malhi and Shafqat Ali alias Bagga, were handed down death sentences, along with besides life imprisonment and multiple jail terms by an anti-terrorism court on March 20, 2021. However, the two men challenged their convictions in court five days later.

"The Lahore High Court (LHC) today dismissed appeals of the two men convicted in infamous rape case of the French woman of Pakistani-origin in 2020 in Lahore and uphe...