A 26-year-old man, who was sentenced to 'qisas' (retribution-in-kind) for murder after his arrest in October 2018, was taken to the gallows in April and hanged but pulled down after 28 seconds at the request of the plaintiffs and transferred back to his cell after being resuscitated, Norway-
The Iranian national was arrested in Castrop-Rauxel near Dortmund on suspicion of procuring toxins, including cyanide and ricin to carry out a terror attack.
The accused was an accomplice of another Iranian migrant Kabuli Jafri, who was arrested by the property cell of Mumbai Police in September this year in connection with a series of chain snatching and cheating cases while posing as a crime branch officer in Mumbai, police said.