Staff Reporter :
An Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) in Quetta awarded the death sentence to 3 accused involved in the kidnapping and murder of a minor child on Thursday. Judge of the ATC, Abdul Majeed Nasar announced the judgment regarding the conviction of the three accused to life imprisonment.
According to court sources, three accused identified as Dawood Shehzad, Mehdi and Iftikhar to death sentence twice in the kidnapping and murder case of a 10-year-old child. Similarly, the court convicted Muhammad Baqir of death sentence twice, and another accused Roohullah of seven years of rigorous imprisonment. Zahid Ali Khan, the deputy district prosecutor presented the case in court on behalf of the government.
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The accused had kidnapped a 10-year-old boy Sher Ali Hazara
The accused had kidnapped a 10-year-old minor boy Sher Ali Hazara from Quetta’s Hazara Town. The incident happened on February 10, 2021. The accused had demanded a ransom of Rs.30 million from the family members of the child.
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The parents and other family members had refused to pay the ransom amount. Subsequently, the dead body of the minor child was found in district Pishin Saranan. Levies shifted the dead body to district headquarters hospital Pishin and then handed over it to the heirs.
The incident had caused outrage on social media
The incident had caused an outrage on social media with people asking the police and levies to bring the perpetrators of the heinous crime to book. Police had also registered a case against the accused in the Brewery police station.
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Soon after the announcement of the judgment, police arrested the accused and shifted them to district Jail Quetta under tight security.
