Citation Name: 2025 YLR 604 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDHBookmark this Case Lutaf Ali vs State S — 2025 YLR 604 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH

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Citation: 2025 YLR 604 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Court: Sindh High Court
Year: 2025
Reporter: YLR
Parties: Citation Name: 2025 YLR 604 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDHBookmark this Case Lutaf Ali vs State S
Subject matter: Criminal
Provisions referred to: S. 302

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Judgment text as reported

Citation Name: 2025 YLR 604 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDHBookmark this Case Lutaf Ali VS State S. 302(b)---Qatl-i-amd---Appreciation of evidence---Minor contradictions in evidence of witnesses---Inconsequential---Accused was charged for committing murder of wife of complainant by causing her knife/dagger injuries---Record showed that all the witnesses were consistent in their evidence and even if there were contradictions, same were minor in nature and not material and certainly not of such materiality so as to effect the prosecution case and the conviction of the appellant---Evidence of the witnesses provided a believable corroborated unbroken chain of events from the time the complainant and his wife/deceased were returning home from hospital with witness to the appellant confronting the deceased over hiding her daughter/his wife and on her denial he viciously stabbing her with a knife, to his running away, to the arrest of the appellant, to the recovery of the knife on his pointation and to his confession before the Judicial Magistrate---Appeal against conviction on two counts was dismissed except his acquittal to the extent of the murder of the unborn child.

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