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SAHIWAL, Nov 14: A taxi driver’s killer was executed in the central jail here on Wednesday morning.
The jail authorities said 21-year-old Muhammad Mansha was the youngest person ever to have been hanged in the prison.
Mansha, along with three accomplices Ghulam Mustafa, Rafiq and Ghulam Murtaza, killed taxi driver Aslam Pervez at a parking stand in Okara. The Okara B-division police registered a murder case against the four and the Anti-Terrorism Court III, Lahore, awarded them death penalty on March 31, 2001.
The high court on May 20, 2002 upheld Mansha’s sentence, but ordered the release of the other three. Appeals made to the Supreme Court and the president were rejected. The Okara district judge fixed the date for his execution, but human rights organisations appealed to convert the death penalty into life term on the plea that the accused was juvenile at the time of murder. The apex court, however, rejected the review petition.
ROOF COLLAPSE: A student was killed and two others injured when the roof of an under-construction house at Chak 734-R caved in on Wednesday.
Reports said Asghar Ali was getting a house constructed and its girder dislocated as a result of which the roof caved. Student Asif was buried alive while his cousin Tahir and uncle Mustafa were rescued in critical condition. They were hospitalised.
KILLS FARMER: Three armed men killed a farmer who had accused them of theft at Chak 50/GD on Wednesday.
The Noorshah police registered a case and arrested Tanvir Shah, one of the suspects.
