GUJRANWALA, June 25: The Anti-Terrorism Court No 1 handed down on Wednesday death sentence and Rs600,000 fine to three people, who had kidnapped for ransom a nursery-going boy.

Judge Iftikhar Husain ordered forfeiture of the properties of the convicts.

According to the prosecution, Muhammad Arshad, Ansar Mahmood and Qaiser Mahmood kidnapped nursery-going Zeeshan Zafar at Wazirabad on Jan 30 this year. They demanded Rs5 million ransom from his family. Saddar police retrieved the boy within 24 hours and arrested the culprits.

Meanwhil, local courts on Wednesday handed down death sentence to four convicts and life-term to two others with a fine of Rs250,000 collectively in different murder cases.

An additional sessions judge awarded death sentence to Aslam, Imtiaz and Asif and fined Rs50,000 each while life-term to Imtiaz and Asif with a fine of Rs25,000 each.

The judge acquitted two co-accused brothers — Imran Aslam and Adnan Aslam — by giving them the benefit of the doubt.

According to the prosecution, convicts had kidnapped a youth, Tanvir, from Qila Dedar Singh for his alleged involvement in illicit relations and then killed him on Dec 14, 2001. Later, they had also burnt his body.

Another court handed down death sentence to Shahid with a fine Rs100,000 in a murder case.

He will have to undergo additional six-month hard jail if he defaults in the payment of fine.