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2023 MLD 233 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SHRIMATI JAAMI VS State Ss. 302(b), 201 & 34---Qatl-i-amd, causing disappearance of evidence of offence or giving false information to screen offender, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Medical evidence---Scop…
2023 MLD 233 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SHRIMATI JAAMI VS State Ss. 302(b), 201 & 34---Qatl-i-amd, causing disappearance of evidence of offence or giving false information to screen offender, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Lack of direct evidence…
2023 MLD 233 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SHRIMATI JAAMI VS State Ss. 302(b), 201 & 34---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Art. 40---Qatl-i-amd, causing disappearance of evidence of offence or giving false information to screen offender, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---B…
2023 MLD 233 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SHRIMATI JAAMI VS State Circumstantial evidence---Scope---Prime duty of Investigating Officer to conduct investigation with full care and cautions and collect evidence by unbroken chain-to-chain from the last seen upto the incident with cre…
2023 MLD 233 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SHRIMATI JAAMI VS State Benefit of doubt---Principle---Conviction must be founded on unimpeachable evidence and certainty of guilt---Any doubt arising in prosecution case must be resolved in favour of the accused.
2023 MLD 233 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SHRIMATI JAAMI VS State Extra-judicial confession--- Scope--- Extra-judicial confession allegedly made by accused is of no value if it was made before two persons at the same time---Extra-judicial confession is a weak piece of evidence.
2023 MLD 233 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SHRIMATI JAAMI VS State Ss. 302(b), 201 & 34---Qatl-i-amd, causing disappearance of evidence of offence or giving false information to screen offender, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Motive was not proved--…
2023 MLD 258 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ALI AHMED VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Election Commission of Pakistan, Islamabad Ss. 35(1)(c), 37(2)(a) & 39---Qualifications for contesting Election in Rural Area---Bar to transfer vote---Respondent "H.K.M" submitted his n…
2023 MLD 275 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Dr. MUHAMMAD BASHIR QASIM VS Mrs. FARIDA BANO S. 24---Transfer application---Scope---Applicant filed a suit for specific performance and injunction at the original side of the High Court in the year 1989---Due to change in the pecuniary jur…
2023 MLD 299 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
KHAIR MUHAMMAD VS State S. 498---Pre-arrest bail---Scope---Concession of pre-arrest bail cannot be allowed to an accused person unless the Court is satisfied about seriousness of the accused person's assertion regarding his intended arrest…
2023 MLD 299 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
KHAIR MUHAMMAD VS State S. 498---Pre-arrest bail---Scope---Pre-arrest bail is not a substitute for post-arrest bail in every run of the mill criminal case as it seriously hampers the course of investigation.
2023 MLD 299 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
KHAIR MUHAMMAD VS State S. 498---Prevention of Corruption act (II of 1947), S. 5---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), S. 409---Criminal breach of trust by public servant, or by banker, merchant or agent, criminal misconduct---Pre-arrest bail, refusa…
2023 MLD 342 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Mst. MASSARRAT ABID VS State Interference---Scope---acquittal once granted could not be recalled merely on the possibility of a contra view---Unless, the impugned view was found on the fringes of impossibility resulting into miscarriage of…
2023 MLD 342 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Mst. MASSARRAT ABID VS State Double presumption of innocence---Interference---appeal against conviction was distinguishable from the appeal against the acquittal because presumption of double innocence was attached in the later case---Order…
2023 MLD 342 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Mst. MASSARRAT ABID VS State Benefit of doubt---Principle---If a simple circumstance created reasonable doubt in a prudent mind about the guilt of the accused that would entitle the accused such benefit not as a matter of grace and concessi…
2023 MLD 342 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Mst. MASSARRAT ABID VS State Ss. 406, 417, 420, 427, 107, 206 & 34---Criminal breach of trust, cheating, cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property, mischief by causing loss or damage to the amount of one thousand rupees or upwa…
2023 MLD 351 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD HAMMAD KHAN VS State Ss. 497 & 498---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 468, 420, 406 & 34---Forgery for purpose of cheating, cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property, criminal breach of trust and common intention---Bail,…
2023 MLD 357 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SAHIB VS State Ss. 324, 353 & 34---Offences against Property (Enforcement of Hudood) Ordinance (VI of 1979), S.17(1)---Attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty, common intent…
2023 MLD 357 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SAHIB VS State Ss. 324, 353 & 34---Offences against Property (Enforcement of Hudood) Ordinance (VI of 1979), S.17(1)---Attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty, common intent…
2023 MLD 357 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SAHIB VS State Benefit of doubt---Principle---Benefit of doubt, if any, arising in the prosecution case would be extended to the accused not as a matter of grace, but as a matter of right.
2023 MLD 366 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Mst. SAKINA alias SIKKO VS State Ss. 9(c) & 29--- Transportation of narcotics--- Presumption from possession of illicit articles---Appreciation of evidence---Scope---Accused persons were alleged to have been found in possession of charas---…
2023 MLD 366 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Mst. SAKINA alias SIKKO VS State Minor contradictions---Scope---Minor contradictions which do not affect the materiality of the evidence can be ignored.
2023 MLD 366 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Mst. SAKINA alias SIKKO VS State Evidence of police officials---Scope---Evidence of a police witness is as reliable as any other witness provided that no enmity exists between them and the accused.
2023 MLD 366 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Mst. SAKINA alias SIKKO VS State Duty of prosecution---Scope---It is for the prosecution to prove its case against the accused beyond reasonable doubt.
2023 CLC 2038 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
BISMA NAUREEN/AMEER JEHAN VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of Finance Pakistan, Islamabad art. 199---aggrieved person---Public interest litigation---Scope---"aurat March" (literally translating to Women's March), holdin…
2023 CLC 2038 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
BISMA NAUREEN/AMEER JEHAN VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of Finance Pakistan, Islamabad arts. 15, 16, 17, 19, 25 & 199---Right to freedom of movement, assembly, association, speech and equality before the law---"aurat…
2023 MLD 380 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MAHMOOD ANDHA VS VIITH RENT CONTROLLER KARACHI, SOUTH Special and general law---Scope---Procedure prescribed in the Civil Procedure Code can be applied only where the special law does not provide for that procedure.
2023 MLD 380 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MAHMOOD ANDHA VS VIITH RENT CONTROLLER KARACHI, SOUTH S. 15---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O. I, R. 10---Eviction petition---Court may strike out or add parties---Scope---Landlord sought eviction of tenant through an application before…
2023 MLD 390 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
IRSHAD AHMED VS State Every case had to be decided on its own peculiar facts and circumstances and courts were required to exercise jurisdiction independently.
2023 MLD 390 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
IRSHAD AHMED VS State S. 497---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 324, 337-D & 34---Attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, jaifah, common intention---Bail, refusal of---Old age---Scope---Old age itself was no ground for grant of bail unless the person wa…
2023 MLD 390 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
IRSHAD AHMED VS State abscondence---Scope---Unexplained noticeable abscondence of an accused deprived him some of the normal rights granted to him by procedural as well as substantive law.
2023 MLD 390 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
IRSHAD AHMED VS State S. 497---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 324, 337-D & 34---Attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, jaifah, common intention---Bail, refusal of---Petitioner moved his bail application on the grounds of being senior citizen, COVID-1…
2023 MLD 400 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD MUNAWAR ARAIN VS NATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY BUREAU (NAB) Ss. 9(a)(vi) & 9(b)--- Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199--- Constitutional petition---Bail, refusal of---Prima facie case---Petitioner was in charge of Wheat Procurement Center…
2023 MLD 400 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD MUNAWAR ARAIN VS NATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY BUREAU (NAB) Ss. 9(a)(vi) & 9(b)--- Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Constitutional petition---Bail, grant of---Financial benefits, absence of---Case of further inquiry---Petitioner was…
2023 MLD 426 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
LIAQAT ALI VS State S. 302(b)--- Qatl-i-amd--- Appreciation of evidence---Weapon of offence was recovered on the pointation of accused---Reliance---Scope---Accused was charged for committing murder of the nephew of the complainant---Only th…
2023 MLD 426 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
LIAQAT ALI VS State S. 302(b)---Qatl-i-amd---Appreciation of evidence---Related and interested witness---Reliance---Scope---Accused was charged for committing murder of the nephew of the complainant---Defence alleged that the witnesses were…
2023 MLD 426 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
LIAQAT ALI VS State Witness---Contradictions in the statements of witnesses---Scope---If prosecution established its case beyond reasonable doubt, some minor contradictions, which were available in each and every case was to be ignored.
2023 MLD 426 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
LIAQAT ALI VS State S. 302(b)---Qatl-i-amd---Appreciation of evidence---Accused was charged for committing murder of the nephew of the complainant---Record showed that three eye-witnesses had fully supported the case of prosecution and no m…
2023 MLD 469 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
QADIR BUX VS State S. 302(b)--- Qatl-i-amd--- Appreciation of evidence--- Sentence, reduction in---Motive was not proved---Scope---Accused was charged for committing murder of daughter of the complainant by inflicting hatchet blows---Motive…
2023 MLD 469 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
QADIR BUX VS State S. 302(b)---Qatl-i-amd---Appreciation of evidence---Quantum of sentence---Accused was charged for committing murder of daughter of the complainant by inflicting hatchet blows---Motive had been set up in the FIR that accus…
2023 MLD 469 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
QADIR BUX VS State S. 302(b)---Qatl-i-amd---Appreciation of evidence---Sentence, reduction in---Accused was charged for committing murder of daughter of the complainant by inflicting hatchet blows---Prosecution had examined three eye-witnes…
2023 MLD 469 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
QADIR BUX VS State S. 302(b)--- Qatl-i-amd--- Appreciation of evidence--- Related witnesses---Scope---Testimony of the eye-witnesses could not be discarded because of their relationship inter se as well as with the deceased.
2023 MLD 492 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ZAHID ALI KHASKHELI VS State S. 342---Piece of evidence not put to an accused during his examination under S. 342, Cr.P.C., could not be used against him.
2023 MLD 492 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ZAHID ALI KHASKHELI VS State Ss. 302(b), 324, 449, 337-a(i), 337-F(i), 337-F(ii), 114 & 34---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 342---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, house-trespass in order to commit offence punishable with d…
2023 MLD 492 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ZAHID ALI KHASKHELI VS State Ss. 302(b), 324, 449, 337-a(i), 337-F(i), 337-F(ii), 114 & 34---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, house-trespass in order to commit offence punishable with death, Shajjah-i-khafifah, ghayr-jaifah-mudihah…
2023 MLD 522 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD AKRAM VS JAMIA IMAMIA TRUST S. 15---Eviction petition---Trust property---Management of the trust, relevance of--- Personal requirement--- Scope---Trust/landlord filed eviction application on the ground of default and personal requi…
2023 MLD 535 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ANWAR ALI VS State S. 9(c)--- Recovery of narcotic substance---Proof---Benefit of doubt---Applicability---Charas weighing 1500 grams in total was recovered from accused who was convicted by Trial Court and sentenced to imprisonment for thre…
2023 MLD 548 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SONO KHUHAWAR VS State S. 540---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 10-A---Power to summon material witness or examine persons present---Right to fair trial---Scope---Provisional and final medical certificates with regard to injury allegedly sus…
2023 MLD 561 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
AMEER AHMED VS PROVINCE OF SINDH through Secretary Revenue Sindh, Secretariat Karachi S. 53---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O. VII, R. 11---Entry in revenue record---Plea of fraud---Plaint challenging entry rejected by Trial Court---Val…
2023 CLC 2119 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
PAKISTAN INTERNATIONAL CONTAINER TERMINAL LIMITED VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Federal Secretary Ministry of Maritime Affairs Ss. 42 & 54---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O.XXXIX, Rr.1 & 2---Suit for declaration and injunction---Int…
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