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Petitioner: MUHAMMAD AKRAM And 4 Others VS Respondent: The STATE
Court Name: Supreme Court of Pakistan Judge(s): Ali Hussain Qazilbash, Aslam Riaz Hussain Title: MUHAMMAD AKRAM And 4 Others vs The STATE Case No.:Criminal Petition for Leave to Appeal No. 291 of 1982 Criminal Appeal No.
705 of 1979 Date of Judgment:1986-11-01 Reported As: 1987 SCMR 130 Result: Petition dismissed Judgment ORDER ASLAM RIAZ HUSSAIN, J,--Muhammad Akram and Muhammad Aslam petitioners were tried alongwith 3 others, inter alia, for offence under section 302, P.P. C. And were sentenced to death. Their appeal before the High Court failed and their death sentences were confirmed by the High Court. 2.They have now come up to this Court through the present petition for leave to appeal. 3. We have heard the petitioners counsel at considerable length. The only contention urged by him is that the plea of defence, namely that they committed the murders in exercise of their right of defence of person, had not been correctly considered by the two Courts below. 4. In the first place the contention merely amounts to a request for reappraisal of evidence secondly, after going through the relevant portions of the impugned judgment with the help of the learned counsel for the petitioner, we feel that the Courts below have carefully considered this contention and have rightly rejected the plea of self-defence. We therefore, find no merit in the petition, which is consequently dismissed.