Apex court reduces Pakistani duo's murder conviction to culpable homicide


PUTRAJAYA: The Federal Court has set aside the murder convictions of two Pakistani nationals, replacing them with convictions for culpable homicide not amounting to murder of a fellow countryman and sentencing them to 18 years' jail.

A three-member bench led by Chief Judge of Malaya Tan Sri Hasnah Mohammed Hashim, along with Federal Court judges Justices Datuk Nordin Hassan and Datuk Hanipah Farikullah, in a unanimous decision on Wednesday (Oct 8), allowed the appeals by Mehmood Nasir, 48,  and Muhammad Ramzan, 34.

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