booja

A bad sign in Baluchi customs. It would be reasonable for a man to kill his wife if his wife shows him the booja

“The facts of the Sind criminal appeal of Ghulam Mustafa Gahno A.I.R. (1939) Sind. 182 reveal that the appellant killed his adolescent wife with a hatchet after she had ‘shown him a “booja”’ - a gesture of extreme contempt amongst the Baluchis, a community to which both the appellant and deceased belonged. Referring to the trial judge’s reliance on the standard of the reasonable man as approved by Lord Reading C.J. in the judgment of the Court of Criminal Appeal in Lesbini, Davis J.C. stated:

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