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IFTIKHAR ALI vs State art — 2022 PCrLJ 1396 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE

Case information

Citation
2022 PCrLJ 1396 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Court
Lahore High Court
Year
2022
Reporter
PCRLJ
Parties
IFTIKHAR ALI vs State art

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Judgment text as reported

IFTIKHAR ALI VS State art. 3---Child witness---Competency---Scope---While adjudging the competency to testify in terms of art. 3 of Qanun-e-Shahadat, 1984, a distinction is to be drawn between a child witness and a child victim---So far as, a child who witnessed a crime committed against some other person, his power to observe the incident and ability to transform it in deposition called for a vigilant judicial observance---Such child witness could on occasions be influenced through tutoring for narrating a false account of the incident, thus his evidence was to be subjected to a strict scrutiny of appraisal---On the other hand, a child who himself fell victim to a crime more so of sexual assault and successfully narrated his sufferings, beside competently standing the test of cross-examination by responding rationally to the questions put to him, his deposition was to be generally accepted---Circumstances established that the prosecution had proved its case against the accused without any shadow of doubt---appeal was dismissed accordingly.

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