KHAIR MUHAMMAD vs State Ss — 2025 SCMR 1599 SUPREME-COURT

Case information

Citation: 2025 SCMR 1599 SUPREME-COURT
Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan
Year: 2025
Reporter: SCMR
Parties: KHAIR MUHAMMAD vs State Ss
Subject matter: Criminal

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Judgment text as reported

KHAIR MUHAMMAD VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Re-appraisal of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Recovery of weapon of offence and crime empties---Inconsequential---Accused persons were charged for committing murder of the son of complainant by firing---Trial Court convicted the accused persons for qatl-i-amd and sentenced them to imprisonment for life---High Court maintained the conviction and sentence---Validity---Record showed that a pistol was recovered from the petitioner's home---Two crime empties were statedly recovered from the scene on 08.12.2015---Weapon of offence, a pistol, was allegedly recovered on 21.12.2015---Record however showed that both the articles were sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory together on the same day, i.e. 12.02.2016, pursuant to which the Forensic Science Laboratory Report recorded a positive result, that the empties had been fired from the pistol---Not only there was a proven inordinate delay in dispatching the articles but the police's failure to send the empties to the Forensic Science Laboratory before the recovery of the weapon of offence also stood established---No reliance could be placed upon the result of Forensic Science Laboratory Report where the crime empties were sent for Forensic Science Laboratory testing after the recovery of the weapon of offence---Appeal against conviction was allowed, in circumstances.

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