ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, June 20 (UPI) -- Pakistan's Supreme Court dismissed a case alleging four girls were killed because of immoral behavior, saying the girls were found alive.
While announcing the decision Wednesday, the chief justice said the court condemns the holding of any jirga -- a panel of local religious leaders -- but found no evidence to suggest the court's investigation was in error, Dawn News reported.
The Supreme Court opened its own investigation into the death decree case. Clerics allegedly determined that four girls and two men should be executed after a video appeared on the Internet that showed the six of them singing and dancing at a wedding in a remote village in Kohistan province. One person later said the four women seen in the video and another woman were killed by their relatives.
The report sought by the Supreme Court said media reports about the killings were false and the girls were alive, The Express Tribune said. Four girls were brought before the judges.
However, social worker Farzana Bari said that she had "reservations" about the outcome because the girls presented to the court did not resemble the girls in the video.
