LAHORE: A special court handed down death penalty to an accused involved in rape of a medical student.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs 500,000 on the accused, Waqas Khalid, besides awarding him life term imprisonment.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Chaudhry Rehmat Ali, presiding officer of special court dealing with gender-based violence cases, conducted the trial proceedings and announced the verdict after hearing arguments of parties and recording statement of witnesses.
According to prosecution, accused Waqas Khalid raped a young woman after kidnapping her in the limits of Quaid-i-Azam industrial area police station in 2016.
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A case was registered against the accused under Section 376(2) (punishment of rape) and Section 366 (kidnapping, abducting or inducing woman to compel her marriage) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC).
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