PAKISTAN: ANTI-TERRORISM COURT AWARDS DEATH SENTENCE ON THREE COUNTS TO RAPIST
April 11, 2018: Anti-terrorism Court (ATC) Malakand awarded three counts of death sentence to one Jumaraz who was convicted of rape and killing of five years old Madeha Tariq in Besham area of District Shangla. The court imposed Rs. 6 lacs fine on prime suspect over committing unnatural act with a juvenile. The verdict was announced at anti-terrorism court Gul kada Swat under tight security. Jumaraz has to pay 2 lacs as compensation to the family. According to Senior public prosecutor Saeed Naeem, on June 21 last year Jumaraz spotted five years old Madeha who was on her way to a nearby store for buying some sweets, he took away the minor to his safe compound and brutally raped her. During the rape madeha lost her senses and the accused throws her body into the water in a filling pot. Shangla police arrested the accused and started trial and after 9 months of hearing the anti-terrorism court (ATC) announced it's verdict of punishment for three times death sentence along with 2 lac's fine. (Sources: Pakistan Point News, 11/04/2018)
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