It is to mention here that the trial court awarded capital punishment to Muhammad Khan and
life imprisonment to Aamir Sohail while the Lahore High Court converted the death sentence of Muhammad Khan into
life imprisonment and maintained
life imprisonment of Aamir Sohail.
In India, the situation is altogether different in reckoning
life imprisonment. Their chief case law on this issue is Gopal Vinayak Godse v State of Maharashtra.
In 2004, a five-member bench heard as many as 62 appeals that urged the apex court to reinstate death penalty for convicts whose capital punishments were commuted into
life imprisonment leading to their release on the basis of remission in their imprisonment periods.
During the hearing, Justice Khosa had remarked that the current interpretation of
life imprisonment law was flawed.
Judge Lord Matthews sentenced the couple to
life imprisonment.
However, he awarded them lenient sentence of
life imprisonment in view of their young age, when they had committed the offence.
On Saturday, the court awarded
life imprisonment to Aslam and imposed fine on him.
During the hearing of a review petition of a murder case, Khosa said that the span of
life imprisonment is limited to 25 years when it is meant to last a lifetime.
He observed that the span of
life imprisonment was limited to 25 years when it was meant to last a lifetime.
The court sentenced him to
life imprisonment and to pay a fine of P500,000.
He also argued that the court failed to offer an explanation of its decision to raise his sentence to
life imprisonment from the first-instance sentence of 40 years that was handed down in 2016.
A man has been sentenced to
life imprisonment for possessing 155 rolls of bhang in Mombasa.