HYDERABAD: The third additional district judge of Hyderabad on Wednesday awarded capital punishment to a woman and her alleged paramour for murdering her husband in Sanghar in October 2010.

The judge sentenced Urs aka Porho Dahiri and Khadija aka Guddi to death and ordered them to pay a compensation of Rs100,000 each. They would also undergo seven years of imprisonment for concealing the victim’s body after murder, said the order.

Roshan Azeem Mallah, counsel for complainant Haji Dahiri, said that his client’s younger brother, Urs Dahiri, was brutally murdered on Oct 6, 2010 within the jurisdiction of the Shahpur Chakar police station in Sanghar.

The complainant had initially lodged a case of kidnapping after his brother mysteriously went missing and he failed to find him. “Later, the deceased’s wife Khadija and her alleged paramour Urs Dahiri, her husband’s namesake, were arrested and they confessed to having killed him with a hammer after giving him intoxicants,” said the counsel.

He said the convicts had informed his client that Urs had gone to bring a dish antenna but did not return.

After the body was recovered on Jan 7, 2011 in the wake of arrest of the accused on Dec 26, 2010, police inserted Section 302 (premeditated murder) of the Pakistan Penal Code in the FIR, he said, adding the case was then transferred from Sanghar to ADJ-III Hyderabad.