President’s remission power bars increase in sentence after release: SC

The Supreme Court of (SC) Pakistan has ruled that once the President has exercised the constitutional power to remit or reduce a convict’s sentence, any subsequent enhancement of that sentence required a clear legal basis. The court dismissed an appeal seeking to convert the life imprisonment of convict Tahreen Ilyas into the death penalty, noting

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