Suspected killers of journalist acquitted
Peshawar
January 21, 2021
HARIPUR: The Model Criminal Court here on Wednesday acquitted a man and his two sons charged with the murder of local journalist Sohail Khan.
According to the first information report registered with the Hattar Police Station, Sohail Khan, 28, resident of Hattar village was, was on the way back home by his high-roof van after dropping school children when unidentified assailants ambushed him on the morning of October 16, 2018. Sohail Khan had been working for a local Urdu daily.
He suffered multiple bullet shots and died instantly. The local journalists took to the streets and staged protest against the murder of their colleague and termed it the result of Sohail’s journalistic work as he used to write about the local industrialists and drug peddlers,
of kidnapping, raping and murdering a six-year-old girl in 2006.
Muhammad Irshad was convicted of kidnapping six-year-old Tajalli and then strangling her to death after he subjected her to rape in Gulistan-e-Jauhar 14 years ago. Model Criminal Court East judge Haleem Ahmed awarded capital punishment to Irshad on three counts while pronouncing the verdict reserved after recording evidences and the final arguments from both sides.
According to the prosecution, Tajalli had gone missing on October 9, 2006 after she had stepped out of her house. Her friend told the victimâs parents that Irshad had asked Tajalli to come in the evening to an open plot where he would give her toys.