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Ubaid Khan vs State S — 2024 PCrLJ 1153 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT

Case information

Citation
2024 PCrLJ 1153 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
Court
Peshawar High Court
Year
2024
Reporter
PCRLJ
Parties
Ubaid Khan vs State S
Subject matter
Criminal
Provisions referred to
S. 302

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Judgment text as reported

Ubaid Khan VS State S. 302(b)---Qatl-i-amd---Appreciation of evidence---Ocular account proved---Accused was charged for committing murder of his mother with axe blows---In the case in hand the ocular-account had been furnished by the complainant and daughter of the deceased---Testimonies of both the witnesses were quite natural as they had narrated the real facts in respect of the murder of their mother at the hands of nobody else but their real bother i.e. the accused---Both the witnesses overcame searching and lengthy cross-examination by the defence but the probative worth of their accounts qua the guilt of the accused could not be shattered in any manner, whatsoever---Admitted fact on both ends that the subject event had taken place inside the house of the complainant party and the accused was also not a stranger to the aggrieved party as he was nobody else but the real brother of the complainant, therefore, the presence of witnesses being inmates of the same house could not be excluded by any stretch of imagination---In view of the peculiar facts and circumstances of the subject event the accounts of both the eye-witnesses were prima facie in line with the version of the prosecution---Circumstances established that the prosecution had proved its case against the accused beyond any shadow of doubt, however, due to some mitigating circumstances, the sentence of life imprisonment was altered to imprisonment for ten years---Appeal was dismissed with modification of sentence.

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