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Petitioner: IHSANULLAH VS Respondent: STATE
1988 S C M R 121
1988 S C M R 121
Present: Aslwn Riaz Hussain and Javid Iqbal, JJ
Qazi IHSANULLAH--Petitioner
versus
THE STATE--Respondent
Criminal Petition for Special Leave to Appeal No. 36 of 1981 and Jail Petition No. 8-R of 1987, decided on 1st November, 1987.
(Against the judgment of the Lahore High Court, Multan Bench, Multan, dated 17-1-1987 passed in Criminal Appeal No.62 of 1983 and Murder Reference No. 60 of 1983).
Penal Code (XLV of 1860)--
---S. 302--Constitution of Pakistan (1973), Art. 185(3)--Sentence, reduction of--Petitioner convicted and sentenced to death under S.302, P.P.C.--No mitigating circumstance entitling petitioner to lesser sentence shown--Plea for reduction of sentence from death to imprisonment for life not entertained--Petition having no merit, dismissed.
Mian Muhammad Akram Ranjha, Advocate Supreme Court and Ch. Mehdi Khan Mehtab, Advocate-on-Record for Petitioner. Nemo for the State.
Date of hearing: 1st November, 1987.
ORDER
ASLAM RIAZ HUSSAIN, J.--This order will dispose of CrI.PSLA No.36 of 1987 and Jail Petition No. 8-R of 198?, as both are directed by the same party against the same judgment of the High Court dated 17-1-1987 dismissing his appeal in a case under section 302, PPC.
2. The petitioner was tried for and convicted under section 302, PPC for the murder of Muhammad Rafiq. His appeal before the High Court failed.
Hence the present petition for leave to appeal.
3. Before us the learned counsel for the petitioner did not argue the case on merits but only prayed for reduction in sentence of the petitioner from death to imprisonment for life.'
4. We have heard the learned counsel for the petitioner at length in support of this plea. He has not been able to show any mitigating circumstance entitling the petitioner to the lesser sentence under section 302, P.P.C. Both the petitions are therefore dismissed as having no merit.
M.I . /I-23/S Petition dismissed.