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Khitab Ullah vs State Ss — 2025 MLD 1803 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE

Case information

Citation
2025 MLD 1803 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Court
Lahore High Court
Year
2025
Reporter
MLD
Parties
Khitab Ullah vs State Ss
Subject matter
Criminal

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Judgment text as reported

Khitab Ullah VS State Ss. 302(b), 324, 336, 337-F(iii), 337-F(vi), 148 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, itlaf-i-salahiyyat-i-udw, ghayr-jaifah-mutalahimah, causing grievous hurt, rioting armed with deadly weapons, unlawful assembly---Appreciation of evidence---Delay of 10-hours and 20-minutes in lodging the FIR---Consequential---Accused were charged that they made firing upon the complainant party, due to which one person died whereas two sustained firearm injuries---Record showed that the unfortunate occurrence, whereby the deceased lost his life and two persons were injured, took place at or about 08:30 am on 01.08.2020 while the matter was reported to the police on the same day at 06:50 pm, with an inordinate delay of about 10 hours and 20 minutes despite the police station being merely 2 kilometers away from the place of occurrence---In column No. 3 of the inquest report, the date and time when police got information about the death was scribed as 01.08.2020 at 08:30 a.m.---Such belated lodging of the crime report shattered the sanctity of the same and reflected that the time was consumed in fabricating, deliberating, consulting and concocting a false story---No plausible justification or adequate explanation was furnished by the prosecution for that delay---Circumstances established that the prosecution had failed to prove its case through cogent, reliable and trustworthy evidence---Appeal of accused persons against conviction was allowed, accordingly.

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