1. ' By this common order we propose to dispose of both the Criminal Petitions Nos.683-L and 693-L of 2001 as they have arisen out of common judgment and involved identical questions of law and facts.
2. ' Learned counsel for the complainant-petitioner contended that the High Court was not justified to reduce the sentence of Muhammad Niaz, respondent from death to life imprisonment on the ground that there was no preplanning or premeditation for the respondent to commit the offence.
3. Leave to appeal is granted in Criminal Petition No,683-L of 2001 to reappraise the prosecution evidence and to consider whether the High Court in circumstances of the case was justified to reduce the sentence of the respondent from death to life imprisonment.
4. ' Leave in Criminal Petition No,693/2001 is also granted. Both the appeals shall be heard together.