PESHAWAR: A local court has convicted a man on the charges of killing two people and injuring five and awarded life imprisonment and Rs1.6 million fine to him.

Additional district and sessions judge Alamgir Shah pronounced the verdict after declaring that the prosecution had proved its case against the accused, Mumtaz Ali of Civil Colony Peshawar, through cogent, convincing and trustworthy evidence.

FIR of the killings was registered at the Bana Mari police station on Feb 5, 2016, under the Pakistan Penal Code`s sections 302 (intentional murder) and 324 (attempted murder).

The complainant in the FIR was the injured Alamgir, who told the police at the Lady Reading Hospitalthat the prime accused, Mumtaz Ali, who was accompanied by Nasir Ali and Ahtesham, fired gunshots at the seven people due to a dispute over a thoroughfare.

He added that the firing killed Mohammad Younas and Fida Mohammad and injured him (complainant) as well as Shakir Ahmad,Sher,Abbas and Arbab Mohammad Haris.

The court observed that it had been proved that no enmity existed between the two parties.

It added that keeping in view the facts and circumstances of the case, the maximum punishment of death might not be appropriate sentence because there were certain mitigating circumstances, which precluded it from passing the maximum sentence such as the complainant party was found in front of the house of the accused; the accused being first timeoffender and there was no preplanned agenda of the accused to commit the offence.

The court convicted the accused on multiple counts and sentenced him under Section 302 of the PPC to life imprisonment and fine d him Rs1 million of which Rs500,000 each had to be paid as compensation to the legal heirs of the deceased.

He was sentenced under Section 324 of the PPC to six years imprisonment and fined Rs500,000 for attempted murder of five people and out of that fine, Rs100,000 each had to be paid to the injured.

The court also declared that the convict was sentenced to one-year imprisonment and fined Rs100,000 for injuring five people and that Rs20,000 of the fine would be paid to each of the injured people.

It added that all those sentences would run concurrently.