A murder convict will be hanged at Bahawalpur Central Jail on Wednesday (today). The jail superintendent issued a press release on Tuesday saying that Muhammad Irshad had been convicted for a murder committed in a Sangla Hill police precinct in Sheikhupura. A district and sessions judge had issued death warrants for him. In Sargodha, Additional District and Sessions Judge Farah Naz on Tuesday sentenced a murder convict to death on Tuesday. Tauqeer Ahmed and his accomplices Sohail and Nadeem were accused of murdering deputy district education officer Rukhsana Shahzad, resident of Chak 103-NB, and injured her husband Advocate Malik Ejaz over property in a Saddar police precinct on February 16, 2014. The court sentenced Ahmed to death, 13 years imprisonment and Rs600,000 compensation. Ahmed’s accomplices, however, were acquitted.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 4th, 2015.
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