Jameel Ahmed vs State S — 2025 YLR 141 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN

Case information

Citation: 2025 YLR 141 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
Court: Balochistan High Court
Year: 2025
Reporter: YLR
Parties: Jameel Ahmed vs State S
Subject matter: Criminal
Provisions referred to: S. 9

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Judgment text as reported

Jameel Ahmed VS State S. 9(c)---Control of Narcotic Substances (Government Analysts) Rules, 2001, Rr. 4, 5 & 6---Possession of narcotic substances---Appreciation of evidence---Transmission/dispatch of samples for test or analysis---Safe custody and transmission of samples not established---Effect---Prosecution case was that 1178 grams charas was recovered from the possession of the accused---ASI (Police), the special messenger, deposited the parcels for analysis in the office of Chemical Expert---Said witness neither produced the Rahdhari nor the receipt of laboratory of collection of Forensic Science Laboratory Report, production of which was mandatory during the trial---Basic rule of evidence was that where written document existed, it should be produced as being best evidence of its own contents---Under the relevant Police Rules, the seized case property was to be entered into a register and then had to be kept in the store room---Safe custody of a seized case property could be established when the copy of the register of store room was formally brought on the record of the Court---Where any matter was required by law to be reduced to the form of a document, no oral evidence should be given for proof of such matter except the document itself---Circumstances established that the prosecution had failed to prove the charge against the accused through consistent and confidence inspiring evidence---Appeal against conviction was accordingly allowed.

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