An Additional District and Sessions Court in Taxila has sentenced a couple to a combined 34 years in prison for the brutal murder of their newborn baby girl, along with fines totaling Rs80,000.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Farhan Mudassir announced the verdict, convicting Zulfiqar Mahmood Satti and Areeba Imran for murdering the infant, who was born as a result of their illicit relationship.
According to the court ruling, both convicts were sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment each for murder. They were also handed five years in jail and fined Rs10,000 each for adultery, and two years’ imprisonment with a Rs30,000 fine for criminal conspiracy.
Case details revealed that the newborn was subjected to severe blows to the head and back before being dumped in a deserted plot near Gali Sat Darbar Karimi, Sadar Wah Cantt.
Residents, alerted by the baby’s cries, rushed her to the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital, where she later succumbed to her injuries. After their arrest, the convicts confessed to the crime.
The case was registered on December 2, 2023, at Sadar Wah Police Station, and both have now been shifted to Adiala Jail.
They should be given more harsh punishment for such brutality done with a newborn she was just a baby… Dam these type of people should have been treated like they did with the little one