Additional District and Sessions Judge Abdul Hafeez Bhutta on Monday handed down death sentence and a Rs1 million fine to a man and his son in his daughter’s murder case.

The 22-year-old woman was murdered on March 18, 2024, in Chak 477-JB, Allowal. A video that went viral on social media showed her being strangled by both convicts Abdul Sattar and his son Faisal. They killed her after she had conceived a pregnancy.

Toba Saddar police arrested both convicts 17 days after the murder.

Another son of the convict Shahbaz disclosed during the investigation that a day before her murder, the deceased had told him that both her father and brother had repeatedly assaulted her on different occasions.

The elder sister of deceased Kausar Parveen informed the police that when she arrived at her parents’ house after being informed about the death, she found her sister dead. While bathing the body, she noticed torture marks.

Her body was later exhumed, and the autopsy report confirmed that the bones in her neck were broken and torture marks were evident. The court acquitted another brother of the deceased and his wife, giving them the benefit of the doubt.

Source: Dawn