SHC commutes life term into 10-year imprisonment in rape case.

KARACHI -- The Sindh High Court on Saturday commuted the life term of a man into 10-year imprisonment in the minor girl's rape case.

The Gender-Based Violence Court (Thatta) had sentenced Rizwan alias Noman to life in prison on two counts in December 2020 for abducting and raping a nine-year-old girl in January 2018 in the Dhabeji area.

The trial court had acquitted a co-accused for lack of evidence.

The convict had challenged the conviction order of the trial court before the SHC and after hearing both sides and examining the record and proceedings of the case, a single-judge bench headed by Justice Irshad Ali Shah maintained the conviction but commuted the sentence.

The bench in its orders stated that the counsel for the appellant stated that he would not press disposal of appeal on merit if the awarded sentence was reduced to a considerable extent by considering mitigating circumstances.

It said that the plea was not opposed either by the additional prosecutor general or by the complainant and victim, who were present in person during the proceedings.

The bench noted that the FIR of the incident was registered after a delay of one day, the co-accused had already been...

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