MULTAN, Pakistan — A judge has ruled that a Pakistani man convicted of attacking his 17-year-old fiance with acid be blinded with acid himself, police said Friday.
Mohammed Sajid, 19, poured acid on the face of his fiance Rabia Bibi on June 24 in Bahawalpur, a city in the eastern Pakistani province of Punjab. His two brothers were also convicted of taking part.
The woman lost both eyes and her face was burned in the attack, which police said followed a minor dispute.
Judge Afzal Sharif ruled Thursday at a court in Bahawalpur that Sajid and his brothers were guilty of the attack. They were sentenced to seven years in jail, and Sajid was ordered to be blinded by acid, said Rana Riaz, a local police official.
The judge ordered that a doctor perform the punishment publicly at a sports stadium.
"This is an Islamic way of doing justice," the judge wrote in his verdict.
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