TAYYAB RAZA vs State Ss — 2021 YLR 1291 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN

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TAYYAB RAZA VS State Ss. 375, 376, 377, 294 & 506---Sexual offences, rape, sodomy, obscene acts and songs, criminal intimidation---Appreciation of evidence---Sentence, reduction in---Recovery of incriminating material---Scope---Accused was charged for sexually abusing the daughter of complainant and taking snaps and recording videos---Case of prosecution had also got strength from the recoveries of smart phone, computer C.P.U. and USB---Raid was conducted in the house of accused and during the course thereof smart phone was recovered from personal possession of accused, while the search of his house was resulted into recovery of computer C.P.U. and USB---Said articles were also produced in the Trial Court and on the request of prosecution the memory card already recovered from the possession of accused as well as his smart phone, USB and computer were played, perusal of which transpired that the accused had taken hundreds of porn snaps and a number of videos where accused had been sexually abusing the minors by unnatural offence, fingering in virginal part and other such obnoxious acts---Prosecution in order to establish the porn snaps and videos recorded in the above articles sent the same for analysis and accordingly a witness produced the Digital Forensic Examination Report---Said report further strengthened the case of prosecution that the pornography was genuine, as the same was forensically examined, no frame insertion, editing, forgery, deletion was identified---Not only the memory card contained porn snaps and videos of minor girls but the computer, USB and mobile phone of the accused also contained such abusive porn snaps and videos of minor girls---Record showed that though number of victims were named, who were sexually assaulted, but the prosecution had failed to produce all the victims---One major victim was not produced by the prosecution, though her Court statement was available on record---Victims had kept mum till the arrest of the accused---Awarding of capital punishment to the accused was unwarranted, in circumstances---Sentence of death was therefore, converted into imprisonment for life, in circumstances---Appeal was dismissed with said modification in sentence.

TAYYAB RAZA vs State Ss — 2021 YLR 1291 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN

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