Execution: Three murder convicts hanged

Man awarded death penalty on two counts over murder

DERA GHAZI KHAN/ FAISALABAD:

Three murder convicts were hanged at Central Jails in Faisalabad and Dera Ghazi Khan on Tuesday. The execution of another prisoner was withheld following a settlement with the family of the deceased.

The Faisalabad Central Jail superintendent said Muhammad Younus, a resident of Jaranwala’s Chak 272-GB, had shot dead Amanat Ali, Farzana Bibi and Saira Bibi in 2000. He was awarded death penalty on three counts on December 28, 2004.

The superintendent said superior courts had upheld the sentence. The president, too, had turned down Younas’ mercy petition.

Allah Ditta, a resident of Malkhanwala in Faisalabad, was awarded death sentence on February 7, 2007, for killing Zeenat Bibi in 1999.

Asghar Ali was hanged at the Dera Ghazi Khan Central Jail. He had shot dead his nephew, Yasin, on April 16, 2000.

The Layyah district and sessions judge had awarded him death sentence. Superior courts had upheld the sentence. The president had turned down his mercy petition.

Ali is survived by two wives and a 15-year-old daughter.

The execution of Zulfiqar Ali, a resident of Chak No 74-JB, was stopped after he reached a settlement with the family of the deceased.

He was awarded death sentence on two counts by Anti-Terrorism Court Judge Ishtiaq Ahmad on December 31, 2001, for killing Safiya Bibi in 1999.

Zulfiqar’s parents reached a settlement with Safiya’s legal heirs a few hours before he was scheduled to be hanged.

Death penalty

Anti-Terrorism Court Judge Raja Parvaiz Akhtar has awarded death penalty on two counts to a convict and life term on two counts to his accomplices in a murder case.

According to the prosecution, Rashid Naeem and Qamar Adnan had shot dead a trader, Arshad, in Chak 51-GB on January 2, 2004, on his refusal to pay them Rs200,000 as protection money.

The judge awarded death sentence on two counts to Naeem and life imprisonment on two counts to Adnan. They were also handed down 15-year imprisonment and a Rs1.3 million fine each. They will be imprisoned for another two-and-a-half years each in case they fail to pay the fine.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 17^th, 2015.