Citation Name: 2025 PCrLJ 280 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDHBookmark this Case Abdul Sattar vs Ishaque Ss

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Citation Name: 2025 PCrLJ 280 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDHBookmark this Case Abdul Sattar VS Ishaque Ss. 302(b), 452 & 149---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S.417---Qatl-i-amd, house trespass, unlawful assembly---Appreciation of evidence---Appeal against acquittal---Accused were charged for committing murder of the daughter of the complainant---Record showed that the complainant, his son and daughter-in-law were all present at the time of the alleged attack, but the accused was said to have ignored all three of them and targeted deceased, with whom he had no concern or grudge, which was incongruous, hence damaging to the prosecution's case---Only eye-witnesses produced were the appellant and his son and the prosecution did not call any independent persons from the locality to examine them as a witness, albeit the alleged incident being shown to have taken place during the morning hours, at 9.30 am, and it was claimed that there were other houses in the vicinity---If the body of deceased had been taken to the hospital by the prosecution witnesses, their hands and clothes ought to have been smeared with blood, but the appellant deposed that their clothes were not smeared---Complainant had stated that drops of blood had fallen on the seat of the rickshaw in which the body was transported, but that was contradicted by a witness, who stated that the rickshaw was not stained with blood---Investigating Officer failed to recover the weapons said to have been used in the commission of alleged offence or collect any Call Data Record reports to establish the presence of the respondents at the place of occurrence at the relevant time---While the Investigating Officer secured the last worn clothes of the deceased on 20.11.2020, the same were dispatched to the Chemical Laboratory on 26.11.2020 and then, received on 30.11.2020, after a delay of 10 days---Investigating Officer also secured one 30 bore empty, but the same was not sent to Forensic Science Laboratory for analysis---Record showed that the Woman Medical Officer found that one injury on the person of the deceased was blackened, but none of the witnesses deposed that any of the accused had caused injuries from a close range---Appeal against acquittal was dismissed, in circumstances.

Citation Name: 2025 PCrLJ 280 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDHBookmark this Case Abdul Sattar vs Ishaque Ss — 2025 PCrLJ 280 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH

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