LAHORE: The State on Monday have barred the family of social media celebrity Qandeel Balouch from pardoning the nominated killers by adding Sections 311 and 305 of the Pakistan Penal Code to the FIR.
According to the investigating officer, the State has become complainant in Qandeel’s murder and transformed the FIR of her murder into a non-compoundable FIR, making it impossible for Qandeel’s family to pardon her killers.
Section 305, maintains the wali (guardian) will be the heirs of the victim, but will exclude the accused or convict in case of qatl-i-amd (wilful murder) if committed in the name or on the pretext of honour.
Section 311 refers to the legal proceedings following the waiver or the compounding of the right of qisas (bounty for the murder in the Islamic Sharia law) in wilful murder.
“Notwithstanding anything contained in Section 309 or Section 310… the Court may, having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, punish an offender against whom the right of qisas has been waived or compounded with death, or imprisonment for life, or imprisonment of either description for a term of which may extend to fourteen years as ta’zir,” reads Section 311.
The model was strangled to death in her house in Multan on July 16. Her father claimed that she was killed by her younger brother, Waseem, in the name of honour.
She has been laid to rest in her ancestral village in Dera Ghazi Khan on Sunday.
