KARACHI, July 23: An additional district and sessions judge, South, Farooq Ali Channa, sentenced on Tuesday a rapist to three years’ rigorous imprisonment with a fine of Rs,5000.
The judge ordered that the convict, Mohammed Nadim, would have to undergo an additional two months’ RI if he failed to pay the fine.
Nadim had kidnapped and molested a 14-year girl on May 20, 1999 in Chakiwara after the victim’s family turned down his marriage proposal for the girl.
ACQUITTED: An additional district and sessions judge, South, Aslam Shaikh, acquitted a man of the possession of fake Pakistani currency.
Mohammed Habib was arrested on April 11, 2000 by the Garden police who claimed the recovery of 6,000 counterfeit currency notes from him.
The judge acquitted the accused of the charge as the prosecution could not prove its case against him.
BAIL GRANTED: An additional district and sessions judge, West, Mohammed Sagheer Rana, granted bail to three accused in a kidnapping- for-ransom case.
The accused, Shah Sawar, Mir Nawaz and Taj, were booked and arrested for kidnapping a seven-year-old boy, Tayyab, son of Abdur Rahman, in 2001 in the police limits of Mominabad.
According to the prosecution, the accused demanded Rs250,000 for the release of the kidnapped boy.
The judge granted bail to the accused in the sum of Rs100,000 each.
KIDNAPPING CASE: An anti-terrorism court adjourned the hearing of a kidnapping-for-ransom case after recording the statements of four prosecution witnesses.
Judge Abdul Ghafoor Memon of the ATC-2 fixed Thursday for recording further evidence in the case, which pertained to the kidnapping of a Chinese national and his eight-year-old son for ransom.
Khalid Jameel and Haji Mohammed Iqbal are being prosecuted for kidnapping the 40-year-old foreigner and his son on Jan 6.
The judicial magistrate, South, Rahmat Ullah Morio, a divisional engineer, Pakistan Telecommunications Ltd, Aslam Shaikh, the general manager of a city hotel, Shaukat M. Saleem, and Suleman, an official of a cellular phone company, recorded their depositions as prosecution witnesses.
