GUJRANWALA, Jan 7: A man who was coming out from Central Jail after serving his sentence for keeping unlicensed weapons was shot dead at the main gate by unidentified car-riders here on Monday.

Tariq of Bhopera Kalan village had an enmity with Malik group of neighbouring Bhaddey village.

The Tetley police arrested him on Dec 6, 2004, along with eight accomplices on charges of firing on the vehicle of Pervaiz of Bhaddey village and killing a girl, Zainab.

The Anti-terrorism Court-II sentenced Tariq and his accomplices to three-year imprisonment each for keeping unlicensed weapons, while acquitting them in murder case after the victim’s family compounded the offence.

On Monday, 45-year-old Tariq was coming out of the jail after serving the sentence, when unknown assailants came on a motorcar and shot at him and fled. He died while being taken to hospital.

The Satellite Town police registered a case and started investigation.

SENTENCED: The ATC-I gave death sentence on two counts to Jamil, alias Kali, and fined him Rs100,000 for kidnapping a boy for ransom and then killing him after his family could not pay the ransom.

The court also sentenced to five-year imprisonment to Tarqi and Nawaz and fined them Rs20,000 each while acquitted Jamal Din, Khadim Husain and Asghari Begum by giving them the benefit of the doubt.

The accused had kidnapped Danyal Nawaz, the grandson of Rustam-i-Hind Feroz Din, alias Gonga Pehalwan, from Ugoki village in Sialkot district on Jan 15, 2007, and demanded Rs800,000 ransom.

Danyal’s family paid Rs340,000, but the kidnappers later killed the boy after his family refused to pay more.

The police later found Danyal’s body from a drain.

The police pursued the abductors and managed to net them later. They also recovered the ransom amount received by the outlaws.