HASSAN JAVED vs State Ss — 2022 YLR 1403 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE

Case information

Citation: 2022 YLR 1403 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Court: Lahore High Court
Year: 2022
Reporter: YLR
Parties: HASSAN JAVED vs State Ss
Subject matter: Criminal
Provisions referred to: S. 7---Q

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Judgment text as reported

HASSAN JAVED VS State Ss. 302, 365-a, 148 & 149---anti-Terrorism act (XXVII of 1997), S. 7---Qatl-i-amd, kidnapping or abducting for extorting property, valuable security etc., rioting armed with deadly weapon, unlawful assembly, act of terrorism---appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Delay of about three days in lodging the FIR---Effect---accused were charged for kidnapping the son of complainant for extorting money, but committing his murder---Contents of FIR revealed that, son of complainant went out of the house on 18.01.2015 and did not turn up---Complainant received phone call of some unknown person, who allegedly demanded ransom amount from the complainant for the release of her son---Matter was reported to the police about three days after missing of the child and two days having received phone call by the complainant---absolutely no plausible or convincing reason for the said delay in reporting the matter to the police---Complainant rather admitted in her cross-examination that when she received the call, she never approached the police station and kept on waiting---after three days, complainant went to police station for registration of case, which casted serious doubt about the veracity of prosecution story---Circumstances established that the prosecution had failed to prove its case against the accused persons beyond any shadow of doubt---appeal against conviction was allowed, in circumstances.

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