MANSEHRA, Nov 15: A local court sentenced on Monday a man to life imprisonment, and fined him Rs500,000, for killing his wife in the name of honour.

Additional Sessions Judge Ishfaq Taj Khan convicted Mohammad Riaz for killing his wife Razmina in the name of honour last year.

According to the prosecution, the accused was working in Kuwait when on a visit home last year he got suspicious that his wife had developed illicit relations with a man of the area in his absence and killed her.

Bibi Ayesha, a resident of Charsadda district and mother of the victim, named her son-in-law in the FIR lodged with City police. Accused Riaz led the police to recover the body of his wife from Thakra area near the city.

SECURITY PLAN: Police have chalked out a security plan to avert any untoward incident on the occasion of Eidul Azha.

“Heavy contingents of police would be deployed at all the sanative areas and entry and exit points of the city to avert any untoward incident during the Eid days,” District Police Officer Sohail Khalid told journalists here on Monday.

He said that security plan had been finalised and police would be deployed at entry and exit points of the city. “We want peaceful Eid for the citizens and to obtain the objective special mobile teams have been constituted by each police station for effective policing in their respective areas,” he added.

Mr Khalid said that quick response force was ordered to remain more vigilant during the Eid days. He said that policewomen would also be deployed along with commandos to carry out search of women.

He said that all the SHOs and DSPs in the district were directed to launch crackdown against the outlaws. He said that all police stations were directed to conduct a survey of the rented houses.

The DPO said that owners of the hotels, restaurants, guesthouses and poultry farms and petrol pumps had been directed to keep record of their customers and clients.

“The hotel owners are asked not to provide room to anyone without seeing the national identity cards and other necessary documents of people,” he added. He said that complete ban was imposed on firing in the air on Eid.

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