Man sentenced to death in murder case

A special court on Friday handed down death sentence to a man involved in murder-cum-rape of a six-year-old girl. Additional District and Sessions Judge Waseem Ahmad, presiding officer of a special court dealing with gender-based violence cases, conducted the trial proceedings and convicted Rustam Ali on proving guilty of the heinous crime. The court recorded statements of prosecution witnesses and heard arguments of parties, during the trial proceedings. According to prosecution, Rustam Ali, a domestic servant, had murdered six-year old daughter of his owner after rape. The Defence A police had registered the case against him.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 19^th, 2020.