PAK LAW GPT — Pakistan Case Law AI justice scale emblemPAK LAW GPTCase law · Urdu & English

SHER BAZ alias SHAHBAZ vs State S — 2022 PCrLJ 1214 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE

Case information

Citation
2022 PCrLJ 1214 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Court
Lahore High Court
Year
2022
Reporter
PCRLJ
Parties
SHER BAZ alias SHAHBAZ vs State S
Provisions referred to
S. 540---P

Fields are extracted from the reported citation and judgment text. Where a detail is not stated in the record, it is not shown.

Judgment text as reported

SHER BAZ alias SHAHBAZ VS State S. 540---Power to summon material witness or examine person present---Scope---Oversight or mistake during conducting of case cannot be understood as lacuna and so can be corrected---Lacuna in prosecution case is not to be equated with the fallout of an oversight committed by a public prosecutor during trial, either in producing relevant materials or in eliciting relevant answers from witnesses---Adage "to err is human" is the recognition of the possibility of making mistakes to which humans are proved---Lacuna in the prosecution must be understood as the inherent weakness in the matrix of the prosecution case---Advantage of lacuna should normally go to the accused in the trial of the case, but an oversight in the prosecution cannot be treated as irreparable lacuna---Function of the criminal court is administration of criminal justice and not to count errors committed by the parties or to find out and declare who among the parties performed better.

Other judgments reported in 2022 PCRLJ

Back to the case-law library · Search Pakistani case law in Urdu or English