A father in Pakistan Khalid Mehmood admitted beating his daughter Aneeqa to death before dumping her body outside the Mayo Hospital in Lahore because she failed to make 'gol' roti.
A father in Pakistan Khalid Mehmood admitted beating his daughter Aneeqa to death before dumping her body outside the Mayo Hospital in Lahore because she failed to make 'gol' roti.
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Police later arrested Mehmood and his son Abuzar when they confessed to killing Aneeqa. They also admitted dumping her body as well as filing a false missing persons report.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Asghar Khan at a court in Lahore then awarded Mehmood the death penalty and also fined him 500,000 Pakistan rupees.
According to the prosecution, the convict registered an FIR, claiming his daughter might have been abducted as she had gone out to buy some food but did not return. Later, the Shadbagh police learnt the girl found dead outside Mayo Hospital was actually killed by her father for not making 'gol roti' (round bread), the Express Tribune reported.
After hearing all arguments and examining evidence, the sessions judge announced the decision to award the death penalty to Khalid, who was also fined Rs 500,000. "Khalid and his son kept shedding crocodile tears to hoodwink the police but the mother took off the lid on how brutally they beat the 12-year-old to death," a senior police official had said at the time of their arrest, according to Dawn News.
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