Mst. KHADEJA vs State Ss — 2024 PCrLJ 405 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH

Case information

Citation: 2024 PCrLJ 405 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Court: Sindh High Court
Year: 2024
Reporter: PCRLJ
Parties: Mst. KHADEJA vs State Ss
Subject matter: Criminal

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Judgment text as reported

Mst. KHADEJA VS State Ss. 302(b), 364, 201 & 34---Qatl-i-amd, kidnapping or abducting in order to murder, causing disappearance of evidence of offence, common intention--- Appreciation of evidence---Sentence, reduction in---Scope---Accused was charged that she along with co-accused committed murder of the brother of complainant after kidnapping him---Case was based solely on circumstantial evidence which must be viewed with a great deal of care and caution and it was the co-accused/deceased who caused the hammer blows to the head of the deceased which caused his murder and not the accused who only provided him the hammer---High Court, by exercising judicial caution reduced the sentence of the accused from death to life imprisonment---Appeal against conviction was dismissed with said modification in sentence.

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