The difficult part about eating people in Pakistan is that... the legal ramifications don't cut the mustard.
The brothers were promptly arrested, and they confessed to unearthing and eating a total of five corpses from the cemetery.
But because Pakistan lacked a stringent cannibalism law, they could only be charged with disturbing a grave site. They were sentenced to two years in prison and released in 2013, despite angry protests from villagers.
The legislature is on the case:
One bill in the National Assembly clarifies that anyone who exhumes a corpse with “intent to cook, eat, sell or to use for magic purposes” will face a mandatory jail sentence of between 10 years and life behind bars. A second bill would make eating human flesh punishable by at least seven years in jail.
Read the whole thing, especially for the story of the culinarily curious brothers.
(thanks to Steven Burnett for the link; photo by Logan Ingalls)
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