KARACHI: An antiterrorism court on Monday sentenced a man to life imprisonment for killing a policeman.

Irfan alias Jabal was found guilty of killing head constable Javed Akhtar in Mehmoodabad last year.

Judge Farman Ali Kanasro of the ATC-IX also directed the convict to pay Rs200,000 to the legal heirs of the deceased as compensation.

The court also handed down a collective sentence of 13 years in prison for offences of attempted murder and encounter with police and imposed a fine of Rs50,000 on him.

The court ruled that all the sentences would run concurrently.

Ex-KDA official jailed for five years

An anti-corruption court sentenced a former official of the defunct Karachi Development Authority to five years in prison in an 18-year-old case.

Mumtaz-ul-Haq, the then assistant director of the KDA, was found guilty of fraudulently accumulating moveable/immoveable properties during his employment which were incompatible with his known legitimate source of income.

An inquiry was initiated in 1995 and two years later a case was registered against the accused under Section 5-C of the Prevention of Corruption Act-II 1974 at the Anti-Corruption Establishment.

The accused was on bail and following the pronouncement of the verdict was taken into custody and sent to prison to serve out his sentence.

Published in Dawn, December 1st, 2015