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Petitioner: MUHAMMAD ASLAM and another VS Respondent: THE STATE
Court Name: Supreme Court of Pakistan Judge(s): Nasim Hasan Shah, Ali Hussain Qazilbash Title: MUHAMMAD ASLAM and another vs THE STATE Case No.: Criminal Petition No,141-R of 1987 Date of Judgment:1989-06-19 Reported As: 1990 SCMR 506 Result: Order accordingly
Judgment ORDER ' NASIM HASAN SHAH, J.--The petitioners stand convicted under section 302/34, P.P.C. And sentenced to death and a fine of Rs,15,000 or in default of payment of fine to suffer further 2 years' R.I. During the pendency of petition for leave to appeal, however, the President of Pakistan commuted the sentence of all convicts sentenced to death to life imprisonment. In view of this order, the learned counsel for the petitioners does not press this petition except to the extent that the petitioners may be allowed the benefit of the provisions of section 382-B, Cr.P.C. In the matter of computation of their sentence. This request appears to be reasonable. Accordingly, the petitioners shall be granted benefit of the provisions of section 382-B, Cr.P.C. In computing the sentence they have yet to undergo. ' With the above observation this petition shall stand dismissed.