SHC commutes death sentence to life term

KARACHI:

The Sindh High Court (SHC), while partially rejecting the appeal of three murder convicts on Tuesday, commuted their death sentence into life-imprisonment.

A two-judge bench, headed by Justice KK Agha, gave its verdict on the appeal of the convicts sentenced to death by a sessions court for stabbing a citizen to death. The bench partially rejected the appeal of Nadir Ali alias Babar, Ali Muhammad, and Zaman, against their death sentence, while commuting it to life in jail.

According to police, the convicts had fatally stabbed a man, identified as Zohaib in FIR, with knives. However before dying, the victim had identified the three men named in the FIR as the killers. The case was registered on January 9, 2020 at Memon Goth police station.

A sessions court later convicted the three men and handed them death penalty and a fine of Rs100,000 each.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 14^th, 2022.