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SC rejects review plea of man convicted of stabbing girl student
[DAWN] The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a petition seeking review of its Jan 23 verdict of restoring the five-year sentence awarded to Shah Hussain by a sessions judge of Lahore on March 30 last year.Shah Hussain was convicted of stabbing his fellow student Khadija Siddiqui 23 times on May 3, 2016, near Lahore’s Shimla Hill where she, along with her driver, had gone to pick up her younger sister Soofia from school. Khadija now has done her Bar-at-Law at the City Law School, City University, London. Moved through counsel Shah Khawar, the review petition was heard by a three-judge Supreme Court bench, headed by Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa. With the rejection of the review petition, the earlier five-year conviction stands intact. Shah Khawar argued before the court that the girl named his client after five days and there was a strong possibility that his name surfaced after deliberations and suggested that his client may have been implicated and connected later. Related: Khadija Siddiqui: 2019-01-24 SC overturns Shah Hussain's acquittal in Khadija stabbing case, orders arrest Khadija Siddiqui: 2018-06-15 SC admits Khadija’s plea for hearing Khadija Siddiqui: 2018-06-08 Khadija case: LHC judge rules prosecution failed to establish attacker's guilt Posted by: Fred 2019-08-10 |
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