Kidnapping: Court awards five men life in prison

Five men tried on the charge of kidnapping four men and extorting ransom were convicted and sentenced to life.


Our Correspondent January 31, 2012

KARACHI:


Five men tried on the charge of kidnapping four men and extorting ransom were convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment by an anti-terrorism court here on Tuesday.


Muhammad Ibrahim, Muhammad Saeed, Ameer Baksh, Najafuddin and Muhammad Shahid were tried for kidnapping Kamran, Adil, Ameer Sajid and Farooq from the jurisdiction of Sachal police station on February 4, 2007. They released the hostages after taking a ransom of Rs300,000 from each of the hostage’s family. Judge Bashir Ahmed Khoso also ordered for all their immovable property to be confiscated.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 1st, 2012.

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