Excelsior Correspondent
POONCH, July 16: Principal Sessions Judge Poonch Tahir Khurshid Raina today awarded life imprisonment to four accused for committing murder of a young man Omar Sharief, son of Mohd Sharief of Mendhar in the year 2009.
The accused persons are Abdul Hamid, his wife Anwar Begum, their son Aiyaz Ahmed and his friend Mustafa Aziz, all residents of Glutta tehsil Mendhar.
According to the prosecution case, on June 26, 2009 deceased was on his way to home in the evening when all the accused persons attacked him with iron rods and other objections over an old enmity. The victim survived attack for 12 days and thereafter died when he was being shifted to Jammu from Poonch for treatment in Government Medical College & Hospital.
Entire prosecution evidence which comprises eye witness account, dying declaration and medical evidence fully confirmed the prosecution story before the court.
The entire incriminating evidence was put to the accused but they failed to give any cogent and convincing explanation to it.
After hearing both the sides and taking into account whole gamut of evidence and on the basis of settled legal principles, Principal Sessions Judge Poonch convicted all the accused persons for the offence of murder.
Taking into account all the mitigating factors of all the accused, court observed, “this murder does not fall in the rarest of rare category”. Accordingly, court awarded life imprisonment to all the accused persons with a fine of Rs 5000 each.
Follow our WhatsApp channel