An antiterrorism court has awarded a collective 37-year imprisonment to a mugger for killing a boy and wounding policemen during an encounter in 2019. AP/File
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court has awarded a collective 37-year imprisonment to a mugger for killing a boy and wounding policemen during an encounter in 2019.
Sher Zaman was found guilty of killing 10-year-old passerby Sajjad Ali and wounding police constables Attaullah and Mohammad Tahir Khan with an unlicensed pistol during an exchange of fire in Bilal Colony on April 5, 2019.
The ATC-XX judge, who conducted the trial, recently pronounced his verdict.
The judge awarded life imprisonment to the convict and ordered him to pay a Rs50,000 fine or undergo a six-month additional imprisonment on default.
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