Gujranwala:
An anti-terrorism court of Gujranwala sentenced the main accused on Saturday in the assassination attempt against the former president of the Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-E-insaf (PTI), Imran Khan, the attack by Wazirabad, Punjab, in two terms in perpetuity and imposed a fine of 1.5 million rupees.
On November 3, 2022, during the long step of the old ruling party in Wazirabad, a shooter, a Naveed Bashir, opened fire, injuring Imran Khan, Senator Faisal Javed and several others, and killing a PTI worker. The police arrested the main shooter on the scene.
Imran had accused the coalition government then, including the Federal Minister of the Interior, of being involved in the conspiracy. The first information report (FIR) of the incident was registered at the city police station, Wazirabad, on November 7, and a joint investigation team (JIT) was trained under the 1997 law against terrorism.
On Saturday, ATC judge Muhammad Naeem Saleem said the verdict in the case after a hearing. The court sentenced the main accused, Naveed, to two life mandates for murder and terrorism. The other two co-accused Tayyab Jahangir Butt and Waqas were acquitted after obtaining the benefit of the doubt. Lawyer Imran Abbas Supra said that the accusation had not produced witnesses against Butt.
According to a mandate of commitment to sentence pronounced to the superintendent of the central prison of Gujranwala, Naveed was sentenced separately under article 302b of the Pakistan Code (PPC) (ATA) (ATA) of the law on terrorism).
Under the two sections, the convict was also ordered to pay compensation of 500,000 rupees to the legal heirs of the PTI worker killed Moazzam in the form of land income arrears, with an additional additional imprisonment for six months in the event of a lack of defect, and to pay a fine of 500,000 rupees, with an additional imprisonment for six months in the event of a defect.
As a restitution for AREEB, who suffered injuries in the attack, the convicted person was sentenced to a rigorous imprisonment for 10 years for causing injuries under article 324 of the PPC (trying to commit Qatl-i-AMD) as well as a fine of 100,000 rupees with a new simple imprisonment for six months in the event of a defect; Rigorous imprisonment for 10 years for having caused injuries under section 7B and 7C of the ATA as well as a fine of RS100,000 with a single imprisonment of six months in the event of a defect; And pay Daman by 100,000 rupees and a three-year prison sentence for causing injuries under article 337-FIII of the PPC (Mutafahimah to anyone).
As a return concerning Meer Umar Farooq, another man who injured in the incident, the convicted person was sentenced to a rigorous imprisonment for 10 years for having caused injuries under article 324 of the PPC, as well as a fine of 100,000 rupees with another simple imprisonment for six months in the event of a defect; Rigorous imprisonment for 10 years for having caused injuries under section 7B and 7C of the ATA as well as a fine of RS100,000 with a single imprisonment of six months in the event of a defect; And pay Daman of 100,000 rupees and a rigorous five-year imprisonment sentence for causing injuries under article 337-FV of the PPC (Hashimah to anyone).
As a restitution concerning Imran Yousaf, Naveed was sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for 10 years for causing injuries under article 324 of the PPC (trying to commit qatl-i-amD) as well as a fine of RS100,000 with a simple imprisonment for six months in the event of a defect; Rigorous imprisonment for 10 years for having caused injuries under section 7B and 7C of the ATA as well as a fine of RS100,000 with a single imprisonment of six months in the event of a defect; And pay Daman by 100,000 rupees and a three-year prison sentence for causing injuries under article 337-FIII of the PPC (Mutafahimah to anyone).
As a restitution concerning Muhammad Liaquat, the convicted person was sentenced to a rigorous 10-year imprisonment sentence for causing injuries under article 324 of the PPC (trying to commit Qatl-i-Amd) as well as a fine of RS100,000 with additional additional imprisonment for six months in the event of a defect; Rigorous imprisonment for 10 years for having caused injuries under section 7B and 7C of the ATA as well as a fine of RS100,000 with a single imprisonment of six months in the event of a defect; And pay Daman by 100,000 rupees and a three-year prison sentence for causing injuries under article 337-FIII of the PPC (Mutafahimah to anyone).
The mandate indicated that the penalties would run simultaneously and that the convicted person could benefit from the benefit of article 382-B of the code of criminal procedure (period of detention to be examined during the allocation of the imprisonment).
