KMC official’s killer sentenced to life in prison

An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Saturday sentenced the killer of a Karachi Metropolitan Corporation (KMC) official to life and the co-accused to 15 years in prison. Accused Muhammad Irfan and co-accused Muhammad Kamran were convicted of murdering KMC Deputy Director Muhammad Ishaq in an attack on the municipal body’s anti-encroachment team in January 2014 in the New Karachi police jurisdiction. The KMC anti-encroachment team had claimed that they were not provided with necessary police protection. However, police officials had rejected the allegations and termed them to be “baseless”. However, both Irfan and Kamran were arrested and tried for the murder, and as the prosecution proved the accusations against them, they were sentenced to life and 15 years in jail respectively.