02/12/2025
Pakistan's Supreme Court's larger bench has commuted the accused petitioner's death sentence on two counts to life imprisonment. It has been clarified before Pakistan's Supreme Court that Section 311 is compoundable and is attracted to cases in which the accused has been convicted under Section 302(a), but not in cases of conviction as tazir under Section 302(b) of the Pakistan Penal Code. And the present case accused petitioner was convicted only under Section 302(B) and Tazir punishment has been awarded to him. And the compromise was wrongly not considered in contravention of the principles laid down in PLD 2015 SC 77.