PESHAWAR: Peshawar district and sessions judge, Mohammad Younas Khan, has convicted a man and sentenced him to life imprisonment with fine of Rs300,000 for killing his wife by pushing her from a building after severely torturing her.

Following completion of arguments by both the parties the judge pronounced that the prosecution had proved its case against the accused, Danish Khan, and the evidence on record connect him with the commission of the offence.

The FIR of the occurrence was registered at Pahari Pura police station on complaint of Ms Khursheeda, the mother of the deceased woman Sonia, on March 8, 2019.

The complainant had stated that she was present at her home when she received information that her daughter was pushed down by her husband from their flat, which was on third floor of a residential plaza. She stated that the motive behind the murder was different domestic disputes.

Advocate Niaz Ali Khan Khalil appeared for the complainant and contended that the witnesses had deposed against the accused. He stated that the accused had tried to portray as if the deceased had committed suicide but the circumstantial evidence clearly proved that she was killed.

Mr Niaz argued that the watchman and contractor of the building and other people in the area had heard a lot of noise from the said flat and when they approached the flat to ascertain the cause the deceased was pushed down by the accused.

He stated that after the occurrence, the accused had left the scene without taking the deceased to the hospital and was apprehended after three days. He added that the deceased was taken to hospital by the watchman and other people but she had succumbed to her injuries.

The counsel pointed out that the scene inside the flat clearly showed that the deceased was tortured before killing as there were marks of blood in different portions including walls of the flat.

He contended that the deceased was a young woman of 23 and was killed in a gruesome manner, thus the accused did not deserve any leniency.

The accused’s counsel contended that there was no eyewitness of the occurrence and the case of prosecution was based on hearsay.

Published in Dawn, August 14th, 2020