A three-member bench of the Supreme Court (SC), headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP)Asif Saeed Khan Khosa, rejected appeals from convicts of a triple murder, on Tuesday.
The apex court stayed firm on the Lahore High Court’s (LHC) ruling of capital punishment in the case.
Justice Khosa elaborated on the case history that a rival group had murdered Ilyas Gujjar, Hera Gujjar and Zahid Gujjar while injuring Naved Ilyas and Tahir Mehmood over a petty issue in 2007 in Azimpura, Lahore
He remarked that the victims were not murdered at a single location but three different places after being hunted by the convicts.
Islam rejects all testimonies based on lies: CJP Khosa
The top adjudicator asserted that the relevant trial court had incorporated terror charges in the case, which were later excluded by the high court during the hearing of the accused’s appeals because the murders did not constitute terrorism but were a result of personal enmity.
On Monday, CJP Khosa remarked during a hearing of the case of false testimony, “All witnesses should know that even if a part of a testimony is based on lies it will be rejected, we are curbing false testimonies from today and starting from this witness who lied”. He further maintained that Islam also stated that if a part of the testimony was based on lies it should be rejected.
Published in Daily Times, March 6th 2019.
