18 September 2004	Saturday	02 Shaban 1425

KARACHI, Sept 17: The additional district and sessions judge, East, Ms Kausar Sultana, sentenced on Friday a young man to life term for killing his sister-in-law.

Asad Ali, 26, was convicted after he confessed to have killed his brother's wife, Farzana, before the trial court.

The murderer, a fruit vendor at the old Sabzimandi, first shot the woman dead and then chopped her body into pieces with an axe on Sept 20, last year in their PIB Colony house. The convict stated before the court that he was a hot- tempered man and killed his sister-in-law out of rage after an altercation over a domestic issue.

BANDITS SENTENCED: The additional district and sessions judge, South, Ms Farzana Anver Shah, sentenced two robbers to a three-year term. Mohammed Arif and Mehfooz Ahmed were found guilty of having deprived a rickshaw driver, Mohammed Yousuf, of cash on March 16, 2000, within the limits of the Garden police.

The judge also imposed a fine of Rs20,000 each on the convicts and she ordered that the defaulter on the payment would have to undergo an additional three-month term.

MICHAEL JAVED: An additional district and sessions court granted an anticipatory bail to Michael Javed, a former member of the Sindh Assembly. The former MPA and a minority leader was booked on Aug 2, this year by the PIB police for possessing 1,423 bottles of contraband liquor. The court gave him bail before arrest in the sum of Rs100,000.