MIANWALI: A district and sessions court on Wednesday handed down death sentence on three counts along with Rs1.5 million fine to a man for killing his three minor daughters.

On May 2, 2021, Nadir Khan shot dead his three daughters - Irfa Fatima (4), Alisha Fatima (3) and one-and-a-half-year old Ayesha. The Daudkhel police had registered a case under sections 302/324 of Pakistan Penal Code against Nadir on the complaint of the maternal grandfather of the girls.

Reports said the convict was reportedly enraged over the successive births of daughters after his marriage and often used to fight with his wife.

According to the investigators, the convict, a factory worker, was an addict and would off and on threaten his wife that he would kill the girls.

Published in Dawn, December 15th, 2022

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