At the conclusion of the trial, the sessions judge had acquitted the accused persons from all the charges by extending benefit of doubt, but the district Qazi convicted Mr Iqbal under section 302(B) of the APC and awarded him death sentence asTazir,coupled with five-year imprisonment under the Arms Act. The trial of the case was conducted by the district criminal court Kotli, comprising the sessions judge and districtQazi. ![]() The FIR was initially registered under sections 324,147, 148, 149, 337-A1 of Azad Penal Code (APC) but section 302 of APC and section 13/20/65 of Arms Act were added to it after the victim died of his wounds in the hospital the same evening and the accused persons failed to provide licence of recovered weapons. The complainant had alleged that a group of around 16 lethal weapon-wielding people, including Mr Iqbal, had attacked his shop in Riyan Gala village in the wake of a brief altercation with Mansha Malik a few days ago.Īccording to him, Mr Iqbal, who was wielding a Kalashnikov, had fired a shot at the complainant’s brother Amir Asif Shah which hit him in his forehead and subsequently killed him. Minister for Higher Education Malik Zaffar Iqbal, who had returned from LA-8, Kotli-I on PTI ticket, was nominated in this case in an application lodged with Kotli police station on Sept 29, 2003by Rashid Hussain Shah for the murder of his brother Amir Asif Shah. ![]() MUZAFFARABAD: A sitting member of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) cabinet was arrested by police on Wednesday moments after the Shariat Appellate bench of the AJK High Court slapped him with rigorous life imprisonment and Rs1 million fine in a nearly two decades old murder case.
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