SEETA RAM vs State Ss — 2025 SCMR 2028 SUPREME-COURT

Case information

Citation: 2025 SCMR 2028 SUPREME-COURT
Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan
Year: 2025
Reporter: SCMR
Parties: SEETA RAM vs State Ss

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Judgment text as reported

SEETA RAM VS State Ss. 164 & 364---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Art. 40---High Court (Lahore) Rules and Orders, Volume-III, Chapter 13---Confession---Pre-conditions---Confession, whether judicial or extra judicial, must be demonstrably voluntary, made out of absolute free will and without influence of any kind, whether a threat, inducement, promise or even hope etc.---Fundamental principle regarding admissibility and assessment of a confession, judicial or extra judicial, is that it ought to be genuinely voluntary and must have been made out of one's free will---Confession must have been given freely and without any coercion or influence in any form---Ordinarily no person confesses to commission of a crime because of its consequences and there is possibility that profound effects of being in custody and exposed to physical and psychological distress and trauma associated with investigation and custody a person's rational thinking generally gets impaired---Any innocent person may confess so as to free himself from extremely distressful conditions but in exceptional and rare cases, it cannot be ruled out that an accused may voluntarily confess his guilt because of genuine remorse or regret---It becomes an even more onerous task of the court when circumstances are such that there is a likelihood of accused being exposed to influence of a person in authority, such as being in custody of a police officer and confined in the lock up of a police station.

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