The court, headed by Chief Justice Harry L Carrico, is expected to give its ruling on November 6 on his attorneys' 92 claims for saving Kasi's life.

The attorneys have alleged that Kasi was denied due process as he was detained for three days and his confession was obtained under duress.

Kasi, they claimed, was handcuffed, sometimes hooded and was suffering from minor injuries inflicted during his arrest. ``He was not produced before any judge in Pakistan before extradition, as required by the law.''

Instead, before being sent to the US, he was held in a Pakistani hotel by FBI agents. ``I do not submit he was tortured,'' said defence attorney Elwood E Sanders, ``but FBI agents had already beaten the man down into submission, and that statement (ofconfession) was not voluntary.