Supreme Court of Pakistan
Supreme Court of Pakistan. — Photo by AFP

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday took a suo motu notice in the Kohistan death decree case, DawnNews reported.

Clerics had allegedly issued orders for the killing of four women and two men after a mobile phone video emerged of the six singing and dancing at a wedding in a remote village in Kohistan.

Earlier on Sunday, the man who had broken the news of the decree came up with the more shocking news that the four women seen in the video and another woman had been killed by their relatives in the village of Pales.

The apex court directed Attorney General Irfan Qadir to collect information on the case from Chief Secretary Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and inform the court on it. The case was scheduled to be heard on Wednesday.

Taking notice of the alleged decree, the chief justice reiterated that the Supreme Court had already declared verdicts issued by private jirgas as illegal.

The chief justice also issued a notice to DPO Kohistan and directed that the women, if alive, should be produced before the court on June 6.

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