ISLAMABAD: Supreme Court (SC) has maintained in its decision refusing marriage is a fundamental right of woman and it cannot be made justification for murder. .

The court rejected the plea filed by the criminal Muhammad Kamran under article 188 of the constitution.

The legal principles regarding change in sentence of death convicts were also clarified in the decision.

Death criminal does not have automatic right for reduction or change in sentence after serving 14 or 15 years imprisonment in jail.

According to decision it is mandatory to complete at least 25 years sentence and other legal conditions for seeking remission under principle of life expectancy.

The court made it clear the principle of remaining in imprisonment for long period does not apply equally to every condemned prisoner and the automatic relief cannot be given on this basis.

The court rejected review petition of criminal Muhammad Kamran in the case of murdering a woman Memoona Shaheen for refusing marriage by her and upheld his death sentence.

The SC maintained no clear legal mistake could be proved in the previous decision through review petition, therefore no basis for giving relief to the criminal exists.

The court made it clear murdering a woman for her refusal to marriage is heinous crime and such act cannot be made basis for remission in the sentence.

The legal position of life prisoner and death convicts is different. Therefore, the uniform principles cannot be applied to both .