The august Supreme Court of Pakistan has held in the case of “Mst. NAZIA ANWAR v. The State and others” (2018 SCMR 911), while considering the penalty for an act of commission of Qatl-i-amd, as under:-
“In these circumstances it is quite obvious to me that the motive asserted by the prosecution had remained utterly unproved. The law is settled by now that if the prosecution asserts a motive but fails to prove the same then such failure on the part of the prosecution may react against a sentence of death passed against a convict on the charge of murder.”
Part of Judgement of
IN THE LAHORE HIGH COURT, RAWALPINDI BENCH, RAWALPINDI.Crl. Appeal-Against Conviction-PPC
141-17
2020 LHC 1925
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