New Delhi: The Pakistani Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence on Sarabjit Singh.
Sarabjit had been convicted of spying and for being the mastermind behind four bomb blasts in Pakistan in 1991 that killed 14 people.
Singh's defence team filed four separate petitions for review, one for each of the four bomb blasts, after the Supreme Court rejected his appeal against his conviction last year.
Singh's lawyer, Rana Abdul Hameed, said a two-judge bench of the Supreme Court dismissed the first petition on technical grounds, saying it had been filed too late.
On Thursday, the verdict confirmed the death sentence on the second review petition.
Following the judgement, Rana said he will be drafting a mercy petition which would be submitted to Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf.
Singh's family says he is a poor farmer from Amritsar who accidentally wandered into Pakistan in 1990 while he was drunk.
Pakistani officials say Singh was arrested while trying to slip back into India after the bomb blasts.
However, his defence lawyer says Sarabjit's is a case of mistaken identity.
Singh is currently lodged in the high security Kot Lakhpath jail near Lahore.
Appeals from India through non-formal channels led to high-level assurances from Pakistan that his case had been brought to the attention of Musharraf and the President had promised to look into his mercy plea.
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