| Anti Terrorism Court Special Judge Mehmood Maqbool Bajwa on Saturday sentenced six people to death for the murder of a man and his son and sentenced eight others to five years rigorous imprisonment for absconding from the trial. The convicts were accused of murdering Ibrahim and his son Zafar on June 22, 2002, when they opened fire in a mosque in Manawan area. Shahzad, Abdul Hameed and Lal Din were injured in the incident. The judge handed the death sentence to Ilyas, Hanif, Khalil, Idrees, Saleem and Munir and fined them Rs 100,000 each. They were also asked to pay Rs 200,000 each to the heirs of the victims. They were sentenced to another three years in prison and fined Rs 20,000 each for ârioting while armed with a deadly weaponâ. The judge handed them another two years in prison with a fine of Rs 50,000 each for injuring three men. The judge sentenced Javed, Muhammad Saleem, Johar, Yaseen, Hafiz Sultan, Aslam, Nisar and Abdul Rehman to five years in prison and issued permanent arrest warrants for them. |