MAJHI Versus STATE

ORDER

1. 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.

2. 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 her uncle Sultan, P. W, 7,

3. Mazhar Hussain, P. W. 8 and Muhammad Hussain, P. W.

9. They actually succeeded in apprehending him and later on made him over to the police officer who visited the spot after recording the F. I. R., lodged by P. W. 7 at 4 p.m.

4. Courts below have found no enmity between the three eye witnesses and the petitioner. None had, therefore, any motive to falsely implicate the petitioner on a capital charge. The grounds raised in the petition for leave to appeal go to met appreciation of evidence which do not warrant: interference with the conviction of the petitioner by this Court.

5. The petition is dismissed.

6. Petition dismissed.