OKARA, July 30: Deepalpur Additional District and Sessions Judge Raja Pervez Akhtar on Tuesday handed down death on seven counts each to two persons who killed seven members of a family in the limits of Basirpur tehsil police a year ago.

The court has also awarded the convicts seven-year jail and a fine of Rs800,000 each.

The prosecution said convicts, Iftikhar and Akbar Ali, stayed at one Anwar bibi’s house in Islampur and late night treated the family on sweetmeat. Immediately after taking the sweetmeat, the seven family members fell unconscious.

Later, both the visitors raped widow Anwar bibi, her relative Sadia and killed them and Anwar’s five sons.

Basirpur police completed the challan of the two killers.

POWER CONNECTIONS: Water and Power Development Authority will supply power connections to industrial units within a week.

This was stated by Lesco Chief Executive Brig Riaz Toor while talking to newsmen here on Tuesday.

He said the department had set up mobile customer care centres in big cities and it would soon start working in Okara.

RECOVERED: A spare parts dealer, who was kidnapped by unidentified assailants two days back, was found dead in the 4/L minor on Tuesday.

Reports said some people kidnapped Shafqat Sattar from his shop two days back. His body was recovered from the canal on Tuesday and he was buried by a local welfare trust.

Later, Sattar’s family sought local District and Sessions Judge Naseem Akhtar Khan’s permission for exhumation of the body and identified him.

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