Medical student Asma Rani was killed in Kohat in 2018 for refusing to marry. The victim mentioned the name of Mujahidullah Afridi in a video statement before she died. The court sentenced her to death on conviction. Two accused Siddiqullah and Shahzeb Acquitted
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| The man convicted of killing a medical student for refusing to have sex was sentenced to death |
PESHAWAR: Mujahidullah Afridi, the main culprit in the murder of medical student Asma Rani in Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has been sentenced to death. According to details, a local court in Peshawar handed down a verdict in the murder case of medical student Asma Rani. District and Sessions Judge Peshawar Ashfaq Taj delivered a brief verdict in the murder case, in which Mujahidullah Afridi was sentenced to death. Acquitted 2 accused Siddiqullah and Shahzeb.
It has been reported that medical student Asma Rani was killed in Kohat in 2018 for refusing to marry. Asma Rani mentioned the name of Mujahidullah Afridi in a video statement before her death, on which the court sentenced her to death. The case was shifted from Kohat to Peshawar on the orders of the Peshawar High Court.
It very well might be reviewed that in January 2018, Mujahid Afridi in Kohat shot and killed Asma Rani, an MBBS third-year understudy concentrating in a clinical school, before her house for declining to have a relationship, after which the denounced escaped to Saudi Arabia. However, Asma Rani mentioned the name of Mujahidullah Afridi in a video statement while she was injured on this Chief Justice of Pakistan Saqib Nisar took suo moto notice of the murder of a medical student Asma Rani in Kohat and demanded a report from IG Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Salahuddin Mehsud within 24 hours. Of
Later, Mujahid Afridi was arrested from Sharjah through Interpol, while the main accused Mujahid Afridi's friend Shahzeb was also arrested because the accused Shahzeb used to do reiki of the victim, and Shahzeb was also involved in making Mujahid Afridi escape after the murder. In December 2019, the Supreme Court directed the trial court to form a three-member bench on appeal against the provisions of terrorism, barring the trial court from ruling in the Asma Rani murder case.
