TOBA TEK SINGH, Dec 3: An 18-year-old girl who went missing six days ago from her house in Kamalia was found dead near a canal of Mamoon Kanjan, Faisalabad, family and police said.

Widow Ghulam Fatima said her daughter Parveen Akhtar went missing from her house in Nadirabad of Kamalia when she was not home. Some neighbours told her that five people had bundled her into a car. On Thursday, she came to know that in Mamoon Kanjun, some people had brought an unconscious girl to a private hospital for treatment but the hospital staff refused to admit her. Later, the police found the body of a girl near the canal of Chak 5100-GB.

The police kept the body in Allied Hospital, Faisalabad. Later, Ghulam Fatima identified the body and received it for burial. Mamoon Kanjan and Kamalia police registered cases of murder and kidnapping against Shahbaz, Ghalib and three unidentified people.

Deceased’s family informed Mamoon Kanjan police that their relative Shahbaz, of Mamoon Kanjan, might have kidnapped and killed Parveen.

DEATH: Kamalia Additional District and Sessions Court Judge Ijaz Ahmad Awan handed down death sentence to two brothers, Rashid Mushtaq and Babar Mushtaq, and life imprisonment to Muhammad Asad and Muhammad Ijaz in a murder case.

The court also ordered convicts to pay a Rs100,000 fine each to heirs to Chaudhry Ghulam Mustafa who was killed some two years ago over an old enmity.