Justice served: Court awards death sentence to accused in murder case

Accused Khan Zaman had killed Munir and Akbar over a family dispute in 2016.


Our Correspondent April 08, 2017
PHOTO: AFP

BHAKKAR: A court awarded death sentence to an accused in a murder case on Friday. The judgment was announced by Additional District and Session Judge Abdul Rasheed.

The prosecution told the court that accused Khan Zaman had killed Munir and Akbar over a family dispute on July 9, 2016. However, the police arrested him and registered an FIR.

The police produced the accused before the court where he was found guilty of the murder. After hearing witnesses and analysing the evidence, the court awarded death sentence to Zaman.

Earlier, a district and sessions court in Dera Ghazi Khan sentenced a man to death after he was found guilty of killing a man over a land dispute. A co-accused in the case was declared a proclaimed offender.

According to the prosecution, the deceased named Laal Ahmed and accused Jalil Ahmed and Muhammad Tariq had a land dispute for a long time. One day, Laal was going back home from work when Jalil and Tariq ambushed him and shot him dead. Later, Saddar police registered a murder case against the suspects and arrested Jalil while Tariq managed to flee.

While announcing the verdict, District and Sessions Judge Malik Khalid Mehmood ordered the convict to pay a fine of Rs500,000 to the heirs of the deceased.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 8th, 2017.

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