October 17, 2006	Tuesday	Ramazan 23, 1427

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SARGODHA, Oct 16: Additional District and Sessions Judge Rana Muhammad Ali on Monday awarded imprisonment and fine to a sub-inspector and two constables in a trespass and murder case.

In the same case, the court handed down life term to an accused for killing constable Abid and seven-year jail to his two brothers for shot injuring constables Masood Anwar and Muzaffar Husain.

Reports said SI Bashir Bajwa and the constables had trespassed on the house of alleged criminal Qurban Butt in March 2000. On seeing the police, he along with five accomplices, including his brothers Furqan Butt, Irfan and Luqman opened fire on the officials. Qurban was also reportedly killed in the crossfire.

Later, Qurban’s widow Falak Naz filed a private complaint with the court, stating that Fatima Jinnah colony fell in the jurisdiction of Jhal Chakian police, but Bashir Bajwa and three constables of Satellite Town police raided her house without prior permission from high-ups and killed her husband.

On the other hand, the police claimed that they had arrested Qurban with heavy quantity of narcotics and illicit arms as he used to smuggle the same in Sargodha district. For his rescue, his family members opened fire, killing him and injuring constable Abid, the police said.

Deciding the private complaint, the court handed down seven-year imprisonment and Rs20,000 fine to SI Bajwa and two-year each to constables Masood Anwar and Muzafar Husain.

The court awarded life term and Rs50,000 fine to Furqan for killing constable Abid and seven-year imprisonment along with Rs20,000 fine each to his two brothers Luqman and Irfan for shot injuring the constables.

The court acquitted two accomplices of the Butt family.