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ABID vs State Ss — 2024 PCrLJ 790 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH

Case information

Citation
2024 PCrLJ 790 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Court
Sindh High Court
Year
2024
Reporter
PCRLJ
Parties
ABID vs State Ss
Subject matter
Criminal
Provisions referred to
S. 7---Q

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Judgment text as reported

ABID VS State Ss. 302(b), 363, 365-a, 376(ii) & 34---anti-Terrorism act (XXVII of 1997), S. 7---Qatl-i-amd, kidnapping, kidnapping or abducting with intent to secretly and wrongfully confine person, kidnapping or abducting a person under the age of fourteen, common intention, act of terrorism---appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Material contradictions in the statements of witnesses---Effect---accused were charged for committing rape with the daughter of the complainant after kidnapping her---In the present case, there also seemed to be some material contradictions in the evidence of complainant and other witnesses---Complainant stated in his evidence that his friend who was a police man told him to reach at G Block immediately and when he reached there he found his daughter hanged and strangled---On the other hand said friend of complainant did not state at all in his evidence that he called the complainant and asked him to reach G Block---Instead said witness stated that an Intelligence Officer informed him about the location of the body and when he reached there the body had already been taken by ambulance to the hospital and that he saw the complainant at the hospital---So how could the complainant have reached the site where the body was before his friend who gave him the information---Circumstances established that the prosecution failed to prove its case against the accused persons beyond shadow of any doubt---appeal against conviction was accordingly allowed.

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