Zaeem Imran vs State S — 2026 PCrLJ 796 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH

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Zaeem Imran VS State S. 295-B---Willfully defiling, damaging, or desecrating a copy of the Holy Quran---Appreciation of evidence---Contradictions in the evidence of witnesses---Accused was charged for setting the Holy Quran on fire---Record showed that the complainant did not leave the place of incident untouched for the police to come and inspect it and retrieve the burnt pages of Holy Quran---On the contrary, evidence of Police Constable, a member of police party who first reached the house of complainant, showed that burnt pages of Holy Quran were produced by the complainant in a shopper---Police party had not seen the appellant either present over the spot or fighting with complainant or the burnt pages scattered over there to give credence to the story narrated by the complainant---According to evidence of Police Constable, it was the complainant, who had handed over a shopper containing burnt pages of Holy Quran and it was she who had pointed out aparticular spot to be the place of incident---Appellant was found sleeping in the house and doing nothing---Conduct of the complainant calling police after one day of the incident and handing over burnt pages of Holy Quran on her own in ashopper was itself suspicious and created doubt over authenticity of her story---On the other hand, conduct of the appellant, found sleeping, did not cause alarm and indicate that he had not committed the alleged offence---No evidence of the incident was found by the police either except the version of complainant that appellant had committed the alleged offence---Further, complainant in her evidence had claimed that appellant had confessed his guilt at police station, hence FIR was registered against him and he was arrested, however, this part of her evidence was not supported by Investigating Officer, who had arrested the appellant at police station on being informed about the incident---On the basis of such shaky and sketchy evidence produced by the prosecution, which did not directly point out to the role of the appellant in the incident, sending him to jail for life appeared to be harsh and unjustified---Complainant not being on good terms with her husband/appellant at the time when the incident took place was a sufficient circumstance to doubt her motive to implicate her ex-husband in the case, as meanwhile reportedly she had separated her way from the appellant---Appeal against conviction was allowed, in circumstances.

Zaeem Imran vs State S — 2026 PCrLJ 796 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH

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