SAMI ULLAH vs State S — 2023 YLR 1461 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE

Case information

Citation: 2023 YLR 1461 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Court: Lahore High Court
Year: 2023
Reporter: YLR
Parties: SAMI ULLAH vs State S
Subject matter: Criminal
Provisions referred to: S. 302

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Judgment text as reported

SAMI ULLAH VS State S. 302(b)---Qatl-i-amd---Appreciation of evidence---Promptly lodged FIR---Accused was charged for committing murder of the father of complainant by firing---Occurrence in the case took place on 20.05.2017 at 06:00 a.m.---Matter was reported to the police on the same day through complaint and the FIR was also lodged on the same day i.e. on 20.05.2017 at 08:30 a.m., i.e., within a period of 02 hours and 30 minutes from the occurrence---Distance between the police station and the place of occurrence was 8-miles---Even the postmortem on the dead body of deceased was conducted on the same day on 20.05.2017 at 12:30 p.m. within a period of 06 hours and 30 minutes from the occurrence---Keeping in view the time of occurrence, the place of occurrence, its distance from the police station and the time of postmortem examination of deceased, it was of the view that there was no deliberate or conscious delay in reporting the matter to the police or in conducting the postmortem examination on the dead body of deceased---Circumstances established that the prosecution had proved its case against the accused, however, due to some mitigating circumstances, the conviction was maintained but sentence awarded to the accused was altered from death to imprisonment for life---Appeal was dismissed with said modification in sentence.

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