Law: Penal Code (XLV of 1860)

Section: 302

(On appeal from the judgment and order of the High Court of West Pakistan, Lahore,, dated the 28th October 1969, in Criminal Appeal No. 175 of 1969). Penal Code (XLV of 1860), ---S. 302-Murder-Accused caught red-handed and made over ` to police-No enmity found existing between accused-appellant and prosecution witnesses nor witnesses having any motive to falsely implicate accused on capital charge--Petition for Special Leave to Appeal to Supreme Court Grounds raised in petition for leave to appeal going to mere appreciation of evidence-Such grounds, held, do not warrant interference by Supreme Court with 'conviction -Leave .to appeal refused. Date of hearing: 27th January 1970. ORDER MUHAMMAD YAQUH ALI, J.- The petitioner has been sentenced to death for the murder of Mst. Budhai on 4-6-1968 in village Sangra, district Jhang. The deceased was a woman of loose character. She at first, formed illicit intimacy with the petitioner, but she soon discarded him and made a liaison with Rehman, the village barber. Attempts made by the petitioner to dissuade the deceased from carrying on with her new paramour having failed to invoke any response, he felt provoked and finding the deceased alone to her house at peshiwela strangulated her to death. The alaram, raised by the deceased attracted…