Man gets death penalty for eight murders

SARGODHA: The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) awarded nine times death sentence to a man involved in a murder case in Bhalwal police station limits. The verdict was announced by ATC Judge Atiqur Rehman Bhindar.

The prosecution told the court that accused Arshad had murdered eight people, including women and children in a village over family dispute on August 21, 2012.



The local police registered a case against the accused and presented challans in the ATC court for trial. After completion of the arguments and analysing evidence, the judge awarded eight times death sentences to the culprit over murder and one time death sentence under ATC Act along with 97 years additional imprisonment. Besides, the court also imposed a fine of Rs3.5 million on the convict for possessing illegal weapons. The culprit was shifted to District Jail Sargodha.



Earlier, a court handed down a death sentence to a convict for his involvement in a murder case in Multan.

The prosecution told the court that Shahbaz, in connivance with Qaiser, Muhammad Tariq, Muhammad Fayyaz, Ali Raza and Muhammad Sajid, gunned down a woman named Shamim Akhtar over a dispute on October 9, 2017.

The local police registered a case against the accused and presented the challan before the court. After hearing the arguments, the judge handed down a death sentence to Shahbaz. The court also imposed a fine of Rs0.2 million on the convict.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 13^th, 2018.