Farman Ali and his brother
Mohammad Arif were arrested in April this year after police discovered
the head of a two-day-old child at their home.
The child’s corpse had been
stolen from a graveyard in the brothers’ home village of Darya Khan,
around 300km south of Islamabad.
The pair, who are in their late 30s, had prepared and eaten a curry from the child’s remains, the police said.
They had previously been
arrested for eating human corpses in the same village in 2011 and had
served two years in prison, during which time they were treated by
psychiatrists, police said.
“The anti-terrorist court today
sentenced them each to 11 years and four months of hard labour,” Mr
Shakir Hussain Dawar, a district police officer, told AFP.
The court, which found them
guilty of corpse desecration, concealing evidence and acts of terror,
also recommended the government create a law banning cannibalism, Mr
Dawar said.
Mr Mian Muhammad Rizwan, a public prosecutor, confirmed the details of the verdict.
In the 2011 case, police found
the body of a 24-year-old woman at the men’s house. One of her legs was
missing, which they had eaten.
The police said that the men’s
wives and family members had left them some years ago and both were
living in the house in isolation.
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