Omar Sheikh, the convict in the Daniel Pearl beheading and killing case was sentenced to seven years imprisonment by the Sindh High Court on Thursday. He has already served 18 years and will be set free immediately.
The South Asian correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, Daniel Pearl was bamboozled by Sheikh and then kidnapped and beheaded brutally in Karachi, the capital of Sindh Province in Pakistan.
The anti-terrorism Court had issued a death sentence against Sheikh and three others.
The Sindh High Court over turned the verdict and sentenced Sheikh to 7 years in prison and acquitted the other three individuals.
Omar Sheikh is a British citizen of Pakistani origin. He was a student at the London School of Economics before becoming radicalised and engaging in acts of terror.
In India, he has been found guilty of attacking the Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly and a Ghaziabad Court also found him guilty of killing some foreign tourists.
He was released along with Maulana Masood Azhar and another after the hijack of the IC 814 flight in 1999.