SC restores 5-year sentence to suspect in Khadija Siddiqui case
Earlier, the LHC had acquitted Shah Hussain while giving him benefit of the doubt.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – The Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP) on Wednesday cancelled the order of the Lahore High Court (LHC) and ordered an immediate arrest of suspect Shah Hussain who had stabbed a student Khadija Siddiqui at least 23 times in Lahore in the year 2016.
Earlier, the LHC had acquitted Shah Hussain while giving him benefit of the doubt.
His lawyer argued with the apex court that the order of the LHC could not be cancelled and that relatives of the injured persons were present at the time when doctors were performing medical examination and quoted doctor that Khadija was still conscious.
“Surgeons are expert, they had only wrote condition of injuries,” the judge responded, and subsequently restored the five-year sentenced awarded to the suspect.
