Zainab Rape Case convict Imran confessed at least 8 more rape-cum-murder cases of minor girls

LAHORE: ATC on Tuesday handed Zainab rape and murder case convict Imran Arshad a total of three counts of death penalty and Rs2.5 million in fine in another case of child sexual abuse.

Rapist and Murderer Imran Arshad, who was already awarded four counts of the death penalty, one life term, 7-year jail term and Rs4.1 million in fines back in February for raping and murdering a seven-year-old girl named Zainab in Kasur, had confessed sexually abusing at least eight minor girls.

Accountability court judge Sajjad Ahmed awarded Imran Arshad death sentence and 23 years imprisonment in the rape-cum-murder case of Kainat Batool, another girl from Kasur. The court also ordered him to pay Rs2.5million as fine.

Just yesterday, the court had handed him a total of five counts of the death penalty and Rs5.75million in fines in two similar cases of child sexual abuse while on Saturday, he was sentenced to four counts of death penalty each in the rape and murder case of five-year old Aisha, eight-year-old Laiba and seven-year-old Noor Fatima.

He was fined Rs2 million each asked to pay Rs1 million each as blood money in all three cases.