KARACHI: An ATC sentenced on Tuesday a man to seven-year imprisonment in an extortion case.

Mohammad Ghazi was found guilty of demanding protection money from a shopkeeper by putting him in the fear of death in the Arambagh area in November 2013.

The court, however, acquitted a co-accused, Atif Sheikh, for lack of evidence.

The ATC-III judge, Syed Shakeel Haider, also imposed a fine of Rs50,000 on the convict and in case of default he would have to undergo an additional one year in prison.

Published in Dawn October 26th, 2016