Jilted: Man awarded life imprisonment
The judge however acquitted Nashid due to lack of direct evidence.
LAHORE:
An additional district and sessions judge sentenced a man to life imprisonment for murdering a friend of his girlfriend’s. He also imposed a fine of Rs500,000 on Umar Khursheed. Prosecution said Khursheed and an accomplice Nashid gunned down Sheharyar, a man his girl friend was seeing, at Model Town Park in 2009. The judge however acquitted Nashid due to lack of direct evidence.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 1st, 2014.
An additional district and sessions judge sentenced a man to life imprisonment for murdering a friend of his girlfriend’s. He also imposed a fine of Rs500,000 on Umar Khursheed. Prosecution said Khursheed and an accomplice Nashid gunned down Sheharyar, a man his girl friend was seeing, at Model Town Park in 2009. The judge however acquitted Nashid due to lack of direct evidence.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 1st, 2014.