RAWALPINDI, Feb 3: The judge of anti-terrorist court No. 2, Safdar Hussain Malik, on Monday awarded death sentence on two counts to four persons for kidnapping and killing a medical college student.

The convicts include two students of the same medical college.

The court also ordered confiscation of property of the convicts, Sajjad Ahmed, Bilal Durrani, Dr Qaisar and Khazir Rehman. The court also imposed a fine of Rs100,000 on each of the convicts.

In default of the fine, which would go to the bereaved family as compensation, each convict would have to undergo an additional six-month rigorous imprisonment.

According to the prosecution, Sajjad Ahmed and Bilal Durrani, who were the students of a medical college in Industrial Area, I-9, had kidnapped their roommate, Junaid Altaf, and took him to Charsadda. The convicts, through e-mail, demanded $10 million ransom from the victim’s parents, who were settled in Canada.

After realising that their demands would not be met, both the convicts strangulated Junaid, whose decomposed body was later found on the bank of a river in Nowshehra.

The victim’s father, Altaf Butt, told the court that he did not receive any e-mail and was not aware of the kidnapping till the police informed him.

IMPRISONMENT: The civil judge and judicial magistrate, Hasnain Qadir Ghillo, awarded three-year rigorous imprisonment each to three persons for committing burglary at a house.