JAVED IQBAL vs State Ss — 2023 SCMR 139 SUPREME-COURT

Case information

Citation: 2023 SCMR 139 SUPREME-COURT
Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan
Year: 2023
Reporter: SCMR
Parties: JAVED IQBAL vs State Ss
Subject matter: Criminal

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Judgment text as reported

JAVED IQBAL VS State Ss. 161 & 164---Judicial and extra-judicial confession---Scope---Any confession made by an accused, whether judicial or extra-judicial, should be taken into consideration in toto and could not be split into pieces, nor any part of the same can be taken to favour the prosecution---Any such confession may be taken into consideration but the court cannot select out of the statement, the passage, which goes against the accused---Such confession must be accepted or rejected as a whole; it is not open to accept only a part of the confessional statement of the petitioner and reject the other part while maintaining his conviction---Confession has to be read as a whole and not by relying only on the inculpatory part of the confession/the statement.

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