LAHORE: A judicial magistrate on Saturday sentenced the primary suspect in Khadija stabbing case to seven years in prison.
The court ordered police to immediately arrest Shah Hussain on charges of attempted murder.
Khadija Siddiqui, a law student, was allegedly attacked by her class fellow, Shah Husain, on May 3, 2016, near Shimla Hill where she along with her driver had gone to pick her younger sister from school.
Both sisters were about to get into their car when helmet-wearing suspect attacked Khadija with a knife and stabbed her 23 times leaving her critically injured.
Civil Lines police had registered a case against Shah Husain on charges of attempted murder. The suspect is happened to be son of a lawyer, Tanvir Hashmi.
