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MUHAMMAD NAWAZ vs State S — 2022 PCrLJN 77 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH

Case information

Citation
2022 PCrLJN 77 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Court
Sindh High Court
Year
2022
Parties
MUHAMMAD NAWAZ vs State S
Subject matter
Criminal
Provisions referred to
S. 302

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Judgment text as reported

MUHAMMAD NAWAZ VS State S. 302(b)--- Qatl-i-amd--- Circumstantial evidence--- Scope---Circumstantial evidence, in a murder case, should be like a well-knit chain, one end of which touched the dead body of the deceased and the other the neck of the deceased---No link in chain of the circumstances should be broken---Circumstances should be such as could not be explained away on any reasonable hypothesis other than guilt of accused person---Chain of such facts and circumstances had to be completed to establish guilt of the accused beyond reasonable doubt and to make the plea of his being innocent incompatible with the weight of evidence against him---Any link missing from the chain broke the whole chain and rendered the same unreliable---Conviction could not be safely recorded, especially in the cases of capital charge.

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