KASUR, Jan 21: Chunian Additional District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Asghar Fahim awarded on Wednesday life imprisonment and Rs50,000 fine to a murder convict.

Muhammad Amjad will have to undergo additional six-month hard jail in case of non-payment of fine. The court also handed down two-year rigorous imprisonment to three co-accused - Muhammad Husain, Ata Muhammad and Muhammad Iqbal - with a fine of Rs2,000 each, and acquitted four people giving them the benefit of doubt. According to the prosecution, the convicts had shot dead Sabir Ali Dogar at Baqapur village in Kanganpur over a minor dispute.

ROBBER KILLED: A robber was shot dead during the firing of his accomplice while a passer-by injured at Rati Pindi village in Changa Manga locality on Wednesday.

Police said Shaukat Ali and his nephew, Muhammad Bao, were going to Chak 15 when two armed men stopped and took them to fields nearby to rob them. On resistance, one of the robbers opened fire, which targeted his accomplice and a passer-by, Ramzan.