Honor crime: Man sentenced to death

He had killed his daughter’s brother-in-law in a raid on her house.

FAISALABAD: An anti-terrorism court on Saturday awarded death sentence and 92 years imprisonment to a man convicted of murder.

Prosecution said Muhammad Arif had wanted to marry his cousin and had asked her to marry him. He asked her father to allow them to marry but he refused. Prosecution said the pair eloped and married in Chichawatni.

Prosecution said the girl’s parents called a punchayat and demanded that the girl return home. They said the girl did not wish to return, saying she feared for her life.

They said her brother and father Jahangir attacked Arif’s family on March 5, 2014.

They set the house on fire and shot at the family sleeping inside. Arif’s brother Allah Waris, 20, died on the spot. His mother Pathani Bibi, sister Rubina, brother Tariq were injured and rushed to a hospital in Toba Tek Singh.

Kamalia Saddar police had registered the case.

The ATC judge awarded death sentence to Jahangir under Section 302-B of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC). The convict was also directed to pay Rs500,000 compensation to the family of the deceased. The judge declared Jahangir’s son a proclaimed offender and said he would be prosecuted once he was arrested.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 15^th, 2015.