{"id":54187,"date":"2024-10-29T17:11:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-29T12:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=54187"},"modified":"2024-10-29T17:11:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-29T12:11:26","slug":"punjab-police-officials-given-death-sentence-over-fake-encounter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/punjab-police-officials-given-death-sentence-over-fake-encounter\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab Police officials given death sentence over fake encounter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FAISALABAD: The court of Faisalabad city of Punjab has awarded the death sentence to 4 <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/punjab-police-asi-arrested-for-raping-student-in-sargodha\/\">Punjab Police<\/a> officials for killing two citizens in a fake encounter 6 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Reports said that Additional and Sessions Judge Sajida Akhtar pronounced the verdict and also imposed a fine of Rs 10 lakh on each.<\/p>\n<p>Head Constable Asghar Ali, Constable Falak Sher, Constable Faisal Rehman and Police Qaumi Volunteer Waqas have been sentenced to death for the fake encounter that took place in Faisalabad&#8217;s Millat Town in August 2018.<\/p>\n<p>However, the court has acquitted ASI Javed Akhtar from the case as there was no evidence against him.<\/p>\n<p>Arsalan Liaquat and Usman Munawwar were killed in the retaliatory firing.<\/p>\n<p>A case of murder of the two boys was registered against the police officials in the complaint of a citizen named Sajid Mehmood.<\/p>\n<p>The prosecution told the court that victims were riding a motorcycle and were on their way to Bagh Wali Pully near Millat Town when police officials killed them and later framed the incident as an encounter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAISALABAD: The court of Faisalabad city of Punjab has awarded the death sentence to 4 Punjab Police officials for killing two citizens in a fake encounter 6 years ago. Reports said that Additional and Sessions Judge Sajida Akhtar pronounced the verdict and also imposed a fine of Rs 10 lakh on each. Head Constable Asghar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":54189,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[852],"class_list":["post-54187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-punjab-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54190,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54187\/revisions\/54190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}