NOWSHERA: A court on Wednesday awarded death penalty to a person for killing his wife for honour.

Additional Sessions Judge, Nowshera, Zahid Mehmood awarded death penalty to Raza Ali Khan of Kheshgi Payan and freed his brother, Amroz Ali Khan, giving him benefit of lack of evidence against him.

According to the FIR, Raza with support of his brother had killed his wife after exchange of hot words with her on suspicion that she had illicit relation with another person.

However, the killer had stated that his wife had committed suicide. But his younger daughter narrated the actual story to her maternal uncle.

Nowshera Kalan police had registered a case on the complaint of Minhajuddin, brother of the deceased, and started investigation.

The judge also slapped Rs500,000 fine and six-month jail to the convict.

The killer was shifted to Central Jail Haripur from the Nowshera judicial lockup.

Meanwhile, the Nowshera police have failed to control increasing robberies in the district.

JUI-F local leader Qari Riazullah was robbed of cash by unknown armed men at gunpoint in the bright daylight.

In another incident, armed robbers injured a man, Mir Aman Shah, when he showed resistance to them on Nowshera- Nizampur Road.

The injured man was rushed to Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, in critical condition.

The villagers complained that Nowshera-Nizampur Road had become a safe haven for robbers, but the police were not taking action against the highwaymen.

Published in Dawn, February 14th, 2019