Punjab

Murder case: Ex-DSP, son awarded life term, death penalty

Convicts will undergo six months additional imprisonment if they fail to pay fine

Owais Qarni October 14, 2016

The court handed down death sentence on three counts and life imprisonment on two counts to Ibrahim Ladi, chief of Ladi Gang of DG Khan. PHOTO: ONLINE

MULTAN: A former district superintendent of police has been awarded life imprisonment while his son sentenced to death for murdering a boy in Dera Ghazi Khan in January over a petty dispute. The judgment was announced by Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Fawwad Arif on Friday.

According to the prosecution, 15-year-old Usman Chandio was playing cricket with his friends near the former DSP Abdul Karim’s house. During the match, the ball went into the policeman’s house.

When Usman asked the DSP’s son Muhammad Ali to return the ball, Abdul Karim and Ali got enraged and opened fire at him, killing the boy on the spot.

After the incident, Usman’s father Ishaq Chandio registered a case against the retired DSP and his son at the City police station in January.

While announcing the verdict, the court awarded death sentence along with a fine of Rs400,000 to Muhammad Ali, while Abdul Karim was awarded life imprisonment and a fine of Rs150,000. The convicts will have to undergo another six months of imprisonment if they fail to pay the fine.

Earlier in September 2016, an anti-terrorism court in Dera Ghazi Khan had awarded death sentence to a notorious gangster from Punjab for allegedly killing three policemen after abducting them.

The court handed down death sentence on three counts and life imprisonment on two counts to Ibrahim Ladi, chief of Ladi Gang of DG Khan.

The judge also ordered confiscation of his movable and immovable properties. Ladi had killed three police officials and injured a DSP in 2014 after taking them hostage.

Similarly in January 2016, an anti-terrorism court in Gujranwala sentenced former SHO Shahzad Warraich to death four times for murdering Daska Bar president Rana Khalid Abbas and Advocate Irfan Chauhan. The court also awarded 30-year jail term to the convict for inflicting wounds to five other lawyers.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 15^th, 2016.