Killing a woman for rejecting marriage proposal is grave offence, rules SC

ISLAMABAD  –  The Supreme Court of Pakistan on Tuesday ruled that that murder­ing a woman for reject­ing a marriage propos­al is a grave offence and that her refusal can­not justify the killing or serve as a mitigating factor for reducing the sentence.

The court dismissed a review petition filed by Muhammad Kam­ran, who was sen­tenced to death for murdering Maimoona Shaheen, and upheld his death sentence. A three-member bench comprising Justice Mu­hammad Hashim Khan Kakar, Justice Salahud­din Panhwar and Jus­tice Ishtiaq Ibrahim announced the verdict after hearing the case

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