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DERA GHAZI KHAN/ MULTAN/ FAISALABAD: A murder convict was executed at the Multan Central Jail on Wednesday. Two murder suspects were sentenced to death in additional district and sessions courts in Dera Ghazi Khan and Faisalabad.
Altaf Ahmed had served 21 years in prison before he was executed on Wednesday. Police said that he had murdered his cousin and his wife in 1995 over a domestic spat. Jail Superintendent Mohsin Rafiq said that his body was handed over to his family after the execution.
Dera Ghazi Khan Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Younas Larr sentenced Khalil Ahmed, the main suspect in a murder case, to death and directed him to pay the victim’s family Rs300,000. Riaz Hussain, the plaintiff, had filed a complaint with Kot Mubarak police on August 8, 2014, saying that he was walking to his fields with his sons Shehzad Hussain, Haji Usman, Ghulam Akbar, Haji Ghulam Muhammad and Asghar when Khalil Ahmad, Ghulam Shabbir, Hashim, Amir and Abdul Majid stopped them. Hussain said that he had a property dispute with the men. He said that the men vowed to snatch away is lands and shot him and his sons. His son Shehzad Hussain died on the spot and the others were injured.
Police registered an FIR and presented the challan in court. Suspects Hashim, Ghulam Shabbir, Amir and Abdul Majeed were given the benefit of doubt and acquitted.
Faisalabad Additional Session Judge Amjad Nazir Chaudhary sentenced a man accused of murder in a Dijkot police precinct. Faizullah, a resident of Chak 270-JB, and his accomplices Zafar Iqbal, Safdar Ali and Khalid had shot dead Faizullah’s rival Muhammad Nadeem over a tussle involving irrigation schedules. The convict has also been directed to pay the deceased’s family Rs100,000 as compensation. Otherwise, he will have to undergo additional six months’ imprisonment.
The other three suspects were acquitted as the judge gave them the benefit of doubt.
Published in The Express Tribune, February 11th, 2016.
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