KARACHI: A session court has sentenced a man to death in a double murder case.
Additional District and Sessions Judge (South) Abdul Hafij Lashhari, who was hearing the trial at the Judicial Complex inside the Central Jail, convicted Nawaz Khurshid for the murder of an elderly couple, in his DHA Phase V house in 2020, Jaw Iftikhar and Salma, a robbery
The judge also sentenced the accused to 10 years imprisonment under Section 324 (murder attempt), five years 392 (robbery sentence) and seven years imprisonment section 397 (robbery or robbery, death or troubles With the Pakistan Code of Conduct (PPC).
The court noted that the evidence has proved that the main purpose of the crime is a robbery. The accused suffered a “financial frustration” due to unemployment, targeting an elderly couple living in a bungalow.
“[He was] He added that his weakness and valuables were aware of the presence of… Salma and Jawa’s after -death murder took place when he resisted his attempt to steal jewelry and cash.
The complainant’s lawyer, Mohammad Farooq, said that aid Amir Farooq was assisted at the house, who was seriously injured during the robbery, testified that in the early hours of Ramadan, when he was to prepare Sihari. When he woke up, he saw the accused armed. A dagger and a pistol.
The accused tied his hands and feet to a rope, hit his throat and knocked him unconscious.
In a confessional statement before the magistrate, the accused said he entered the bungalow with the intention of robbery. He cut the barbed wire in the rear, hiding on the roof and ambushed the house with an ambush.
He added that when he was stealing jewelry and cash, he exploded the couple’s throat. He confessed that after the robbery, he wasted his blood -stained clothes in a nearby open plot, which was later recovered.
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