NADIR ALI vs State S — 2021 MLD 895 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN

Case information

Citation: 2021 MLD 895 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
Court: Balochistan High Court
Year: 2021
Reporter: MLD
Parties: NADIR ALI vs State S
Subject matter: Criminal
Provisions referred to: S. 22

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Judgment text as reported

NADIR ALI VS State S.22(b)---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Art. 129(g)---Receiving money, etc. for providing foreign employment---Appreciation of evidence---Withholding best evidence---Effect---Prosecution case was that the accused and co-accused had received Rs.700,000/- (Rupees seven hundred thousand) from each of the complainant and promised to send them abroad for employment, but despite lapse of 7/8 months the accused persons failed to send them, on which the complainants demanded their money back but the accused refused---One of the witnesses in her testimony stated that at the time of payment of money her mother was accompanied, but she was not produced in order to affirm the factum of payment of money---Mother of the said witness was the best witness, whose evidence was withheld---Under Art.129(g) of the Qanun-e-Shahadat, 1984 presumption could be drawn that if the witness was produced she could not support the prosecution case---Circumstances established that the prosecution had failed to prove its case against the accused beyond any shadow of doubt---Appeal against conviction was allowed, in circumstances.

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