SIALKOT: The Punjab government has provided a Rs5 million house to the family of slain lawyer Muhammad Irfan Chohan of Daska.

Assistant Commissioner Rao Suhail Akhtar gave the ownership documents of the house to slain lawyer’s father Anwar Chohan at a ceremony held at the AC office here on Tuesday.

Senior lawyers of Daska also attended the ceremony.

Chohan was gunned down along his senior colleague Rana Khalid Abbas, president of the Daska Bar Association, by a police inspector Shahzad Warraich during a clash in front of the city police station on May 25.

The family of the other slain lawyer Rana Khalid Abbas was yet to be “compensated” by the government.

DEATH PENALTY: Daska Additional District and Sessions Judge Ejaz Ahmed Butt handed down death sentence, with Rs0.5 million fine, to a convict Muhammad Younas for killing his wife Salma Bibi over suspicion about her character at Saahneywali village on Oct 20, 2012.

Published in Dawn, July 1st, 2015

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