Muhammad Siddique vs. The State, PLD 2002 Lahore 444 (Pakistan)

The daughter of appellant Muhammad Siddique married a man against her father's wishes. A baby was born out of wedlock. Subsequently, Siddique shot and killed his daughter, her husband and their baby who was then seven months old. The court, with dismay, took judicial notice that the act of the appellant is not one of a kind. Attempts have been made to sanctify this behavior in the name of "family honor," with "honor killings" done traditionally when a daughter or sister marries a person of her choice. Denouncing such acts, the court said that no tradition is sacred, no convention is indispensable and no precedent worth emulation if it does not stand the test of the fundamentals of civil society generally expressed through the law and Constitution.