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29 March 2024

Blood money donor frees killer

Ali Mohammed Shahid (SUPPLIED)

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A Pakistani who killed a friend by accident was freed after an unknown donor paid his Dh200,000 diya (blood money) and ended his four year imprisonment, the Arabic language daily Emirat Alyoum said on Wednesday.

Ali Mohammed Shahid was jailed in 2007 after knocking over his friend by accident while reversing his massive crane during work at their company site in Dubai. The court ordered him to pay diya but he could not afford it.

Emirat Alyoum said it had launched an initiative along with the Faraj Fund at the ministry of interior to secure the release of Shahid. He has just been freed following the payment of diya by an unknown donor in the emirate.

“I am the only supporter of my family in Pakistan…..I have a wife and two sons aged 8 and 4 years…I am very happy to know that a benevolent person was willing to pay my diya and free me,” Shahid said.

He said he would soon return home to be with his family, adding that his imprisonment made him realize the need to be with his wife and sons.