MUHAMMAD AMJAD NAEEM vs State S — 2025 SCMR 1130 SUPREME-COURT

Case information

Citation: 2025 SCMR 1130 SUPREME-COURT
Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan
Year: 2025
Reporter: SCMR
Parties: MUHAMMAD AMJAD NAEEM vs State S
Subject matter: Criminal
Provisions referred to: S. 406---C

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Judgment text as reported

MUHAMMAD AMJAD NAEEM VS State S. 406---Criminal breach of trust, applicability of---Requirements---Section 406 P.P.C reveals that, there are two requisite elements which are necessary to establish a case of criminal breach of trust---Firstly, the accused must have been entrusted with a property as trust (amanat), or must had dominion over it as trust (amanat)---Secondly, after such entrustment or dominion is created, the accused must have breached that trust by either dishonestly misappropriating or converting the property to his own use, or dishonestly using or disposing it of in violation of any direction of law, an express or implied legal contract related to the discharge of the trust, or willfully allowing another person to do any of these acts---Both of these elements need to be present in order to constitute criminal breach of trust.

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