September 11, 2002	Wednesday	Rajab 3, 1423

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ISLAMABAD, Sept 10: The additional district and sessions judge, Sanaullah Malik, on Tuesday indicted a 14-year-old boy for kidnapping a trader from Lahore for ransom and later killing him in May last year.

Sabir Ali, an accomplice, with the help of Rana Sarwat, his wife Mubeen Sarwat, and two others abducted the trader, Zahid Hafiz, and brought him to Bhara Kahu, where one of the culprits, Nasrullah, had killed the trader, when he tried to flee away.

Rana Sarwat and his wife stated to have gone abroad.

Earlier, the district and sessions judge, Sheikh Ahmed Farooq, on June 11, had awarded death sentence and 50-year rigorous imprisonment to Nasrullah after he was found guilty of the offence.

An accomplice of the main accused, Sakhi Sultan, was also awarded a 40-year rigorous imprisonment and a fine of Rs25,000 in the same case.

The convicts had kept the trader in confinement for several days and when he tried to flee, they shot him dead in the presence of hundreds of people at Bhara Kahu.

Sabir was being tried separately under the juvenile justice system.