Criminal Court finds Nazaha guilty of murder
07 Aug 2011, 6:28 PM
Ahmed Nazeer
The Criminal Court today sentenced Mariyam Nazaha, 22, of Henveriu Bainkendige, charged with murdering her ex-husband, to life imprisonment and ordered her to fast for two months.
According to the Criminal Court, Nazaha admitted that she attacked her ex-husband, Hassan Shahid, with a knife on June 22, 2010 at around 3:00pm.
The medico-legal report stated that Shahid had died that at 4:15pm on the same day from injuries caused by the stabbing, said the Criminal Court.
Air and blood gathered in the left side of Shahid’s back resulted in his death, the report stated.
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