Mir Hassan vs State S — 2025 YLR 838 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN

Case information

Citation: 2025 YLR 838 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
Court: Balochistan High Court
Year: 2025
Reporter: YLR
Parties: Mir Hassan vs State S
Subject matter: Criminal
Provisions referred to: S. 13

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Judgment text as reported

Mir Hassan VS State S. 13(e)---Possession of illicit weapon---Appreciation of evidence---Nature and purpose of recovered knife not established---Prosecution case was that during interrogation of a murder case, the appellant made disclosure and got recovered the crime weapon i.e. knife from a room of his house---Record showed that on the pointation of appellant, a knife was recovered from a room of his house hidden beneath a blanket---Record showed that the prosecution had failed to establish that the knife recovered from the appellant was not a kitchen knife or that it was not used in good faih for carrying on a profession, which was a pre-requisite of the indictment---Moreso, on closure of the prosecution evidence, the trial Court also failed to put question to the appellant in respect of use of the recovered knife not being a kitchen knife---Thus in absence of such question in order to seek explanation, such evidence could not be used against the appellant---Appeal against conviction was allowed, in circumstances.

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