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HYDERABAD, March 4: The Anti-Terrorism Court Judge, Hyderabad, Syed Ali Ashraf Shah, on Tuesday awarded 32 years of imprisonment each to two accused in a kidnapping-for-ransom case, police encounter and arms ordinance.
Their co-accused was, however, acquitted by the court as he was given benefit of doubt.
The accused, Mohammad Hashim Khaskheli and Saleh Lohar, were sentenced to 32 years of imprisonment in a case registered by the Tando Ghulam Ali police station.
The case was registered after the Tando Ghulam Ali police recovered a landlord — Ali Bux Nizamani - from the captivity of the dacoits.
In the police encounter, a dacoit, Zulfiqar Ali, had been killed.
MAN ROBBED: A group of three armed men, impersonating as policemen, deprived a trader, Mohammad Javed, of jewellry and cash in the Memon Housing Society late Monday night.
ROBBERY: In an armed robbery, an employee of a private company, Zahid Siddiqui, was deprived of Rs350,000 by two unidentified armed bandits in the jurisdiction of the Makki Shah police station, near the Cantonment Graveyard.
GUTTED: An amount of Rs150,000 in cash and other valuables were completely gutted when a fire broke out in the house of one Mabqool Ahmed in the Mumtaz Colony on Tuesday night.
The cause of the fire could not be known.
In another incident, the huts of Munawar, Akram and Sharif were gutted in Unit No10, Latifabad, late Monday night.
Fire broke out in one of the huts and quickly engulfed two other huts as well.
