A court of sessions in Karachi sentenced film director Mansoor Mujahid and his friend Anab Hameed to life in prison for the murder of his friend Faisal Nabi.
The court also ordered both convicted to pay Rs200,000 each to the heirs of Nabi as compensation. The court kept the case inactive against a third defendant, Masooma Zainab Abidi, who escaped and was charged with incitement, until his arrest or surrender. The verdict was announced Tuesday night.
Nabi was shot dead in an apartment at the Karachi Defense Housing Authority in 2013. Prosecutors said Mujahid and his friends were using party drugs in Hameed's apartment when a heated argument broke out between the victim and the director, who shot Nabi.
Prosecutors said Mujahid, with common intent and consultation with Hameed and Abidi, had used an unlicensed weapon to shoot Nabi. The court was also informed that after shooting the victim, both convicts and Abidi threw Nabi's body, after stabbing him and burning him to hide the identity of the deceased, in the parking lot of the apartment building.
Mujahid and Hameed were charged with the murder of Nabi in 2014. The prosecution informed the court that during an investigation by an investigating officer, Mujahid had confessed to shooting Nabi twice, while Hameed admitted that he had stabbed the victim and led the police to a place where they found the body, the gun, the daggers, the blood-stained pillow and the sheets.
The prosecution said that during the investigation, Hameed had said that Nabi had assaulted her a few days before the murder and that she had written about the incident in her diary that was read by Mujahid.
A case had been registered under Sections 302 (premeditated murder) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Criminal Code on the complaint of the victim's brother-in-law at the Clifton police station.
Source: https://www.dawn.com/news/1513793/life-imprisonment-handed-to-film-director-mansoor-mujahid-accomplice-for-2013-faisal-nabi-murder