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2022 PCrLJ 1327 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD SAIFULLAH CHEEMA VS UMER HAYAT S. 497(5)---Cancellation of bail---Scope---Considerations for grant of bail and those for its cancellation are entirely different---Grounds which are taken into consideration for cancellation of bail,…
2022 PCrLJ 1327 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD SAIFULLAH CHEEMA VS UMER HAYAT S. 497(5)---Cancellation of bail---Scope---Once bail is granted on merits by the court of competent jurisdiction, very strong and exceptional circumstances are required to cancel the same.
2022 PCrLJ 1327 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD SAIFULLAH CHEEMA VS UMER HAYAT S. 497(5)---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), S. 406---Criminal breach of trust---Bail, cancellation of---Scope---Prosecution sought cancellation of bail granted to accused persons---Prosecution case was that…
2022 PCrLJ 1334 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD SAJID VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Chance witnesses---Scope---Accused was charged that he along with co-accused committed murder of the daughter of complain…
2022 PCrLJ 1334 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD SAJID VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Delay of about nine hours and forty five minutes in lodging the FIR---Scope---Accused was charged that he along with co-a…
2022 PCrLJ 1334 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD SAJID VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Motive not proved---Scope---Accused was charged that he along with co-accused committed murder of the daughter of complai…
2022 PCrLJ 1334 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD SAJID VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Recovery of weapon of offence---Scope---Accused was charged that he along with co-accused committed murder of the daughte…
2022 PCrLJ 1334 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD SAJID VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Medical evidence---Scope---Accused was charged that he along with co-accused committed murder of the daughter of complain…
2022 PCrLJ 1334 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD SAJID VS State Witness--- Chance witness--- Scope--- Testimony of a chance witness ordinarily was not accepted unless justifiable reasons were shown to establish his presence at the crime scene at the relevant time.
2022 PCrLJ 1349 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD IBRAHIM VS State S. 540---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 302, 324, 109, 148 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, abetment, rioting armed with deadly weapon, unlawful assembly---Application for summoning the Ballistic Ex…
2022 PCrLJ 1349 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD IBRAHIM VS State S. 540---Summoning of witness--- Purpose and scope--- For summoning any witness under S. 540, Cr.P.C., availability of his name in the calendar of witnesses was not necessary---Absence of name of witness in the cal…
2022 PCrLJ 1371 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
DAD KHAN VS State S. 497---Customs act (IV of 1969), Ss. 2(s), 16, 156(1)(77), 156(1)(85), 156(1)(89), 156(1)(92), 157 & 187---Smuggling, assault on customs official, carrying smuggled goods and intimidating customs officials---Bail, refusa…
2022 PCrLJ 1382 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD ZUBAIR WASEEM VS State S. 497---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), S. 365-A---Police Order (22 of 2002), Art. 155(c)---Kidnapping or abducting for extorting property, valuable security---Misconduct by police officers---Bail, grant of---Cont…
2022 PCrLJ 1396 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
IFTIKHAR ALI VS State Ss. 376 & 506---Rape, criminal intimidation---Appreciation of evidence---Ocular account---Scope---Accused was charged for committing rape with the daughters of complainant and intimidating with dire consequences if his…
2022 PCrLJ 1396 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
IFTIKHAR ALI VS State art. 3---Child witness---Competency---Scope---While adjudging the competency to testify in terms of art. 3 of Qanun-e-Shahadat, 1984, a distinction is to be drawn between a child witness and a child victim---So far as,…
2022 PCrLJ 1396 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
IFTIKHAR ALI VS State Ss. 376 & 506---Rape, criminal intimidation---Appreciation of evidence---Medical evidence---Scope---Accused was charged for committing rape with the daughters of complainant and intimidating with dire consequences if h…
2022 PCrLJ 1396 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
IFTIKHAR ALI VS State Ss. 376 & 506---Rape, criminal intimidation---Appreciation of evidence---Delay of two days in lodging FIR---Scope---Accused was charged for committing rape with the daughters of complainant and intimidated with dire co…
2022 PCrLJ 1437 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. KANEEZ MAI VS JUDGE, ANTI-TERRORISM COURT S. 19---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 190---Procedure and powers of Anti-Terrorism Court---Cognizance of offences by Magistrate---Scope---Anti-Terrorism Court directly takes cognizanc…
2022 PCrLJ 1437 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. KANEEZ MAI VS JUDGE, ANTI-TERRORISM COURT Ss. 200, 201, 202, 203 & 204---Examination of complainant---Magistrate not competent to take cognizance of the case---Procedure---Postponement of issue of process---Dismissal of complaint---Iss…
2022 PCrLJ 1437 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. KANEEZ MAI VS JUDGE, ANTI-TERRORISM COURT S. 19---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 200---Procedure and powers of Anti-Terrorism Court---Examination of complainant---Scope---Petitioner had filed a complaint before the Anti-Terror…
2022 PCrLJ 1451 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SHAHBAZ alias GILLU VS State Ss. 302(b), 148 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, rioting armed with deadly weapon, unlawful assembly---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Ocular account not proved---Scope---Accused were charged that they in furth…
2022 PCrLJ 1451 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SHAHBAZ alias GILLU VS State Ss. 302(b), 148 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, rioting armed with deadly weapon, unlawful assembly---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt--- Delay of about two hours and forty minutes in lodging the FIR---Scope---Ac…
2022 PCrLJ 1451 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SHAHBAZ alias GILLU VS State Ss. 302(b), 148 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, rioting armed with deadly weapon, unlawful assembly---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Recovery of weapon of offence on the pointation of accused---Reliance---Sco…
2022 PCrLJ 1451 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SHAHBAZ alias GILLU VS State Benefit of doubt---Principle---Benefit of doubt must go to the accused as matter of right and not of grace.
2022 PCrLJ 1451 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SHAHBAZ alias GILLU VS State Ss. 302(b), 148 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, rioting armed with deadly weapon, unlawful assembly---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Co-accused was acquitted on the basis of same set of evidence---Scope---Acc…
2022 PCrLJ 1451 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SHAHBAZ alias GILLU VS State Ss. 302(b), 148 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, rioting armed with deadly weapon, unlawful assembly---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Presence of eye-witnesses at the place of occurrence was doubtful---Scope--…
2022 PCrLJ 1451 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SHAHBAZ alias GILLU VS State Ss. 302(b), 148 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, rioting armed with deadly weapon, unlawful assembly---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt--- Delay of about nine hours in conducting post-mortem---Scope---Accused were…
2022 PCrLJ 1451 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SHAHBAZ alias GILLU VS State Ss. 302(b), 148 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, rioting armed with deadly weapon, unlawful assembly---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Motive not proved---Scope---Accused were charged that they in furtherance o…
2022 PCrLJ 1451 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SHAHBAZ alias GILLU VS State Ss. 302(b), 148 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, rioting armed with deadly weapon, unlawful assembly---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Source of light not taken into possession---Scope---Accused were charged th…
2022 PCrLJ 1466 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ALI RAZA VS State "Possession"--Meaning.
2022 PCrLJ 1466 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ALI RAZA VS State S. 29---Presumption from possession of illicit articles---Scope---General rule is that there is presumption that mens rea, an evil intention or a knowledge of wrongfulness of the act is an essential ingredient in every off…
2022 PCrLJ 1466 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ALI RAZA VS State S. 497--- Control of Narcotic Substances Act (XXV of 1997), S. 9(c)---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Art. 38---Possession of narcotics---Statement to police officer not to be proved---Bail, grant of---Accused not in active…
2022 PCrLJ 1466 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ALI RAZA VS State art. 129(b)---accomplice is unworthy of credit---Scope---Evidence of an accomplice is ordinarily regarded as suspicious; therefore, extent and level of corroboration has to be assessed keeping in view the peculiar facts an…
2022 PCrLJ 1466 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ALI RAZA VS State S. 497---Bail---Scope---Mere levelling of allegations of heinous offence is not sufficient to keep the accused behind the bars, once accused succeeds to establish that his case calls for further inquiry and probe.
2022 PCrLJ 1492 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD SHAHID VS State S. 9(c)---Possession of narcotics---Proof of exclusive and absolute possession of place of recovery, requirement of---Scope---Sulfuric acid was secured on the indication of accused from a shop---For providing credib…
2022 PCrLJ 1492 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD SHAHID VS State S. 9---Possession of narcotics---Scope---In order to make an accused liable under S. 9, it is incumbent that the substance recovered from him must be proved to be in contravention of Ss.6,7 & 8.
2022 PCrLJ 1492 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD SHAHID VS State Ss. 6, 2(s), 2(za) & 2(k)--- Control of Narcotic Substances (Regulation of Drugs of Abuse, Controlled Chemicals, Equipment and Materials) Rules, 2001, R. 2(xxxvii) & Sched. V, Div. II---Prohibition of possession of…
2022 PCrLJ 1492 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD SHAHID VS State S. 9(c)---Transportation of narcotics---Nexus of accused with vehicle, proof of---Scope---Where accused was apprehended while sitting in a vehicle from which 10 cans of sulfuric acid were recovered, nexus between th…
2022 PCrLJ 1492 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD SHAHID VS State Ss. 9, 21, 51 & 29---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 103---Possession of narcotics---Power of entry, search, seizure and arrest without warrant---No bail to be granted in respect of certain offences---Presum…
2022 PCrLJ 1492 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD SHAHID VS State S. 29---Presumption from possession of illicit articles---Scope---Negative language is couched in S. 29 of Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997, and if examined with casual approach it implies that the primary b…
2022 PCrLJ 1492 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD SHAHID VS State Ss. 6, 2(s), 2(za) & 2(k)---Prohibition of possession of narcotic drugs--- Narcotic drug--- Psychotropic substance--- Controlled substance---Scope---Embargo is imposed under S. 6 for manufacturing, extracting, prepa…
2022 PCrLJ 1525 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD UMAR FAROOQ SALEEM VS State Ss. 498 & 498-a---Pre-arrest bail---Bail not to be granted to a person not in custody, in court or against whom no case is registered---Non-appearance of accused---Non-submission of bail bonds---Effect--…
2022 PCrLJ 1542 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD NAWAZ VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Recovery of gun 12 bore on the pointation of accused---Reliance---Scope---Accused were charged that they in furtherance o…
2022 PCrLJ 1542 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD NAWAZ VS State Benefit of doubt---Principle---If there was a single circumstance which created doubt regarding the prosecution case, the same would be sufficient to give benefit of doubt to the accused.
2022 PCrLJ 1542 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD NAWAZ VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Delay of eleven hours and forty five minutes in conducting the post-mortem examination on the dead body of the deceased--…
2022 PCrLJ 1542 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD NAWAZ VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Delay of eight hours in lodging the FIR---Scope---Accused were charged that they in furtherance of their common intention…
2022 PCrLJ 1542 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD NAWAZ VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Motive not proved---Scope---Accused were charged that they in furtherance of their common intention committed murder of t…
2022 PCrLJ 1542 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD NAWAZ VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Ocular account and medical evidence---Contradictions---Scope---Accused were charged that they in furtherance of their com…
2022 PCrLJ 1542 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD NAWAZ VS State Recovery of empty---Reliance---If the empty was sent to the office of Forensic Science Agency after the arrest of the accused then it was not safe to rely upon the positive report of Forensic Science Agency and recov…
2022 PCrLJ 1542 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD NAWAZ VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Medical evidence---Scope---Accused were charged that they in furtherance of their common intention committed murder of th…
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