ABDUL WASAY JOKHIO vs State Ss — 2024 YLR 962 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH

Case information

Citation: 2024 YLR 962 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Court: Sindh High Court
Year: 2024
Reporter: YLR
Parties: ABDUL WASAY JOKHIO vs State Ss
Subject matter: Criminal
Provisions referred to: S. 7---Q

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Judgment text as reported

ABDUL WASAY JOKHIO VS State Ss. 302(b), 324, 223, 224 & 34---anti-Terrorism act (XXVII of 1997), S.7---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, escape from confinement or custody negligently suffered by public servant, resistance or obstruction by a person to his lawful apprehension, common intention, act of terrorism---appreciation of evidence---Minor contra-dictions---Inconsequential--- Prosecution case was that the accused persons while in police custody made firing upon the Police Constables and ran away, and due to firing one Police Constable died and another was seriously injured---Record showed that all the witnesses were consistent in their evidence and even if there were some contradictions in their evidence, same were minor in nature and not material and certainly not of such materiality so as to effect the prosecution case and the conviction of the accused---Evidence of the witnesses provided a believable corroborated unbroken chain of events from the accused being driven in the car of accused/Police Official for a remand hearing accompanied by the deceased and the eye-witness, to the accused acquiring a pistol and shooting the deceased and the eye-witness and escaping, to the accused being arrested in the Punjab in a different case, to the recovery of his pistol to a positive Forensic Science Laboratory Report with the empties recovered at the crime scene---Circumstances established that the prosecution had proved its case against the accused beyond a reasonable doubt---appeal against conviction was accordingly dismissed.

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