GUJRANWALA, June 28: A local court sentenced on Saturday three brothers to death on three counts with Rs300,000 each fine in a murder case.
They will have to undergo six months additional rigorous imprisonment each in case of the default of the payment of fine.
Judge Tanvir Mir, however, acquitted co-accused Mushtaq, Akhlaq and Suleman giving them the benefit of doubt.
According to the prosecution, the convicts had last year killed Nawaz, Siddiq and Ghulam Murtaza over an agricultural land dispute in Qila Dedar Singh.
ADJOURNED: : The anti-terrorism court No 2, Gujranwala, on Saturday adjourned for July 8 the hearing of the murder case of PPP city president Chaudhry Khalid Humayun and his body guards.
The trial of Saqib Siddiq, Asif Siddiq, Shafi and their accomplices was being held at the Gujrat jail. But their counsel got the case transferred the case at the Gujranwala jail.
In another case, the court ordered constitution of a medical board to ascertain the age of an accused involved in the murder of former provincial minister Chaudhry Farooq.
Masood Masroor’s counsel had pleaded that his client was minor and could not be tried by an anti-terrorism court. He also produced the birth certificate of Masood.
The prosecution rejected the plea and produced the birth certificate of the accused issued by the chief of Jhelum municipality. It pleaded that the accused was 19-and-a-half years old.
Judge Mirza Rafiuddin ordered constitution of a medical board, comprising senior medical officers of the DHQ Hospital, to ascertain the exact age of the accused.
POSTMORTEM: : The district and sessions judge ordered on Saturday exhumation of the body of a woman.
A man had stated in an application to the district and sessions judge that his wife Sughran Bibi was poisoned to death by her brother-in-law and other relatives over domestic issue. They buried her without postmortem and without informing him.
The court ordered deployment of police at the grave. A judicial magistrate supervised the postmortem examination conducted by a medical board.