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2023 PCrLJ 958 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
GULLAB alias ARO VS State S. 23(1)(a)---Possession of illegal weapon---Appreciation of evidence---Delay of nine days in sending the weapon to the Ballistic Expert---Scope---Prosecution case was that a .30-bore revolver with three live bulle…
2023 PCrLJ 958 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
GULLAB alias ARO VS State S. 23(1)(a)---Possession of illegal weapon---Appreciation of evidence---Safe custody and transmission of weapon from the police to the Ballistic Expert not established----Scope---Prosecution case was that a .30-bor…
2023 PCrLJ 958 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
GULLAB alias ARO VS State S. 23(1)(a)--- Possession of illegal weapon--- Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Prosecution case was that a .30-bore revolver with three live bullets was recovered from the possession of accused, he fa…
2023 PCrLJ 958 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
GULLAB alias ARO VS State S. 23(1)(a)--- Possession of illegal weapon--- Appreciation of evidence---Police witnesses---Scope---Prosecution case was that a .30-bore revolver with three live bullets was recovered from the possession of accuse…
2023 PCrLJ 958 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
GULLAB alias ARO VS State Benefit of doubt---Principle---If there is a single circumstance, which creates reasonable doubt in a prudent mind about the guilt of accused, then the accused will be entitled to its benefit not as a matter of gra…
2023 PCrLJ 1007 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ROSHAN ALI VS State Investigating Officer---Complainant being Investigating Officer---Scope---No restriction on the complainant to be the Investigating Officer provided that no animosity or enmity is alleged against him by the accused
2023 PCrLJ 1007 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ROSHAN ALI VS State Witness---Minor contradictions in statements of witnesses---Scope---Minor contradictions which do not affect the materiality of the evidence can be ignored.
2023 PCrLJ 1007 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ROSHAN ALI VS State S. 9(c)--- Possession of narcotics--- Appreciation of evidence---Prosecution case was that seventy five kilograms of charas was recovered from the vehicle of the accused persons---Record showed that the FIR was registere…
2023 PCrLJ 1007 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ROSHAN ALI VS State S. 9(c)---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 103---Possession of narcotics---Appreciation of evidence---Non-association of private witnesses---Scope---Prosecution case was that seventy five kilograms of charas was r…
2023 PCrLJ 1007 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ROSHAN ALI VS State S. 9(c)---Possession of narcotics---Appreciation of evidence---Police Officials as witnesses---Reliance---Scope---Prosecution case was that seventy five kilograms of charas was recovered from the vehicle of the accused p…
2023 PCrLJ 1007 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ROSHAN ALI VS State S. 9(c)---Possession of narcotics---Appreciation of evidence---Delay in sending samples for chemical analysis---Scope---Prosecution case was that seventy five kilograms of charas was recovered from the vehicle of the acc…
2023 PCrLJ 1071 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
FAZAL MEHMOOD VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 161---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Statement of witnesses were recorded with promptitude---Scope---Accused was charged that he alo…
2023 PCrLJ 1071 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
FAZAL MEHMOOD VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Recovery of CCTV footage---Reliance---Scope---Accused was charged that he along with co-accused committed murder of the cousin of complainant…
2023 PCrLJ 1071 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
FAZAL MEHMOOD VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Sentence, reduction in---Disclosure of the accused---Scope---Accused was charged that he along with his co-accused committed murder of the co…
2023 PCrLJ 1071 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
FAZAL MEHMOOD VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Sentence, reduction in---First Information Report lodged with promptitude---Scope---Accused was charged that he along with his co-accused com…
2023 PCrLJ 1071 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
FAZAL MEHMOOD VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Circumstantial evidence---Last seen evidence---Scope---Accused was charged that he along with his co-accused committed murder of the cousin o…
2023 PCrLJ 1071 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
FAZAL MEHMOOD VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Sentence, reduction in---Scope---Accused was charged that he along with co-accused committed murder of the cousin of complainant---Prosecutio…
2023 PCrLJ 1110 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ASIM MURTAZA KHAN VS State S. 19---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 94---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Art. 91---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Constitutional petition---Documents, production of---Permission to produce documen…
2023 PCrLJ 1146 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
BARKAT ALI VS State Benefit of doubt---Principle---If a single doubt created reasonable doubt in a prudent mind about the guilt of the accused, then the accused would be entitled to such benefit not as a matter of grace and concession, but…
2023 PCrLJ 1146 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
BARKAT ALI VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Art. 129(g)---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Withholding material evidence---Effect---Eye-witness given up and not examined---Accused were charg…
2023 PCrLJ 1146 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
BARKAT ALI VS State Sole evidence of material witness---Scope---No doubt, the sole evidence of a material witness i.e. an eye-witness was always sufficient to establish guilt of the accused if the same was confidence-inspiring and trustwort…
2023 PCrLJ 1146 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
BARKAT ALI VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Delay of two days in lodging FIR---Effect---Accused were charged that they in furtherance of their common intention committed murder of the son…
2023 PCrLJ 1146 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
BARKAT ALI VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Further statement of the witnesses---Scope---Accused were charged that they in furtherance of their common intention committed murder of the son…
2023 PCrLJ 1146 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
BARKAT ALI VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Omissions and inconsistencies between the evidence of the witnesses---Effect---Accused were charged that they in furtherance of their common int…
2023 PCrLJ 1146 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
BARKAT ALI VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Delay of ten days in recording supplementary statements of witnesses---Scope---Accused were charged that they in furtherance of their common int…
2023 PCrLJ 1194 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
WAZEER VS GHULAM QADIR alias GHULAM MUHAMMAD S. 417---appeal against acquittal---Scope---acquittal once granted could not be recalled merely on the possibility of a contra view, unless, impugned view was found on fringes of impossibility re…
2023 PCrLJ 1194 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
WAZEER VS GHULAM QADIR alias GHULAM MUHAMMAD Ss. 337-F(i), 337-F(iii) & 34---Ghayr-jaifah-mudihah, ghayr-jaifah-mutalahimah, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Appeal against acquittal---Benefit of doubt---Delay of about twenty o…
2023 PCrLJ 1194 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
WAZEER VS GHULAM QADIR alias GHULAM MUHAMMAD Ss. 337-F(i), 337-F(iii) & 34---Ghayr-jaifah-mudihah, ghayr-jaifah-mutalahimah, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Appeal against acquittal---Benefit of doubt---Accused were charged fo…
2023 PCrLJ 1194 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
WAZEER VS GHULAM QADIR alias GHULAM MUHAMMAD S. 417---appeal against acquittal---Presumption of innocence---Scope---Scope of acquittal appeal is considerably narrow and limited---approach for dealing with the appeal against conviction would…
2023 PCrLJ 1227 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SARDAR BUX VS State S. 497---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 161 & 34---Prevention of Corruption Act (II of 1947), S. 5---Sindh Enquiries and Anti-Corruption Rules, 1993, R. 11---Public servant taking gratification other than legal remunerati…
2023 PCrLJ 1227 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SARDAR BUX VS State S. 497---Bail---Scope---Grant of bail in cases that do not fall within the prohibitory clause is not a universally acceptable rule.
2023 PCrLJ 1227 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SARDAR BUX VS State Witness---Police officials are as good witnesses as any other and unless mala fide on the part of the arresting party is brought forward, such an argument would remain invalid.
2023 PCrLJ 1260 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ABDUL QADIR VS State S. 497---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 161 & 420---Prevention of Corruption Act (II of 1947), S. 5---Public servant taking gratification other than legal remuneration in respect of an official act---Cheating and dishone…
2023 PCrLJ 1297 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD NADEEM VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Related eye-witness---Scope---Accused was charged that he along with co-accused committed murder of the brother of complainant during robbe…
2023 PCrLJ 1297 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD NADEEM VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Substitution of accused---Scope---Accused was charged that he along with co-accused committed murder of the brother of complainant during r…
2023 PCrLJ 1297 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD NADEEM VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Delay of six hours in lodging the FIR---Scope---Accused was charged that he along with co-accused committed murder of the brother of compla…
2023 PCrLJ 1297 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD NADEEM VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Ocular account supported by medical evidence---Scope---Accused was charged that he along with co-accused committed murder of the brother of…
2023 PCrLJ 1297 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD NADEEM VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Recovery of weapon of offence, crime empty and CNIC of deceased---Scope---Accused was charged that he along with co-accused committed murde…
2023 PCrLJ 1297 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD NADEEM VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Contradictions in the statements of witnesses---Effect---Accused was charged that he along with co-accused committed murder of the brother…
2023 PCrLJ 1338 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD HASHIM ISLAMI VS State Ss. 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7--- Illegal dispossession--- Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Contradictions in the statement of witnesses--- Scope--- Accused were charged for occupying the agricultural land o…
2023 PCrLJ 1338 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD HASHIM ISLAMI VS State Duty of prosecution---Scope---Prosecution had to establish its case and no adverse findings could be drawn in favour of the prosecution solely on the basis of the statement of the accused.
2023 PCrLJ 1338 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD HASHIM ISLAMI VS State Ss. 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7---Illegal dispossession---Appreciation of evidence--- Benefit of doubt---Related and interested witnesses---Scope---Accused were charged for occupying the agricultural land of complainant i…
2023 PCrLJ 1338 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD HASHIM ISLAMI VS State Ss. 3, 4 & 9---appreciation of evidence---Illegal dispossession---Criteria---If possession was not established to be taken by the accused person by using force or deceiving the complainant then a case of ille…
2023 PCrLJ 1338 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD HASHIM ISLAMI VS State Ss. 3, 4, 5, 6 & 7---Illegal dispossession---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Accused were charged for occupying the agricultural land of complainant illegally on the point of weapons and issuing…
2023 PCrLJ 1356 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Syed MUHAMMAD ADNAN VS State S. 9(a)(vi)---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 340(2)---Misuse of authority---Appreciation of evidence---Defence evidence, failure to produce---Sentence, quantum of---Accused was alleged to have misused h…
2023 PCrLJ 1385 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
NASEEM VS State S. 497---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), S. 395---Dacoity---Bail, grant of---Malice of Police---Benefit of doubt---Further inquiry---Allegation against the petitioner and three other co-accused persons was that they, being armed w…
2023 PCrLJ 1404 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD YASEEN alias MAMA GADDI VS State Ss. 302(b) & 324---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd---Appreciation of evidence---Ocular account supported by medical evidence---Scope---Accused was charged for making firing upon the complai…
2023 PCrLJ 1404 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD YASEEN alias MAMA GADDI VS State Ss. 302(b) & 324---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd---Appreciation of evidence---Post-mortem was not conducted---Effect---Accused was charged for making firing upon the complainant and his f…
2023 PCrLJ 1404 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD YASEEN alias MAMA GADDI VS State Ss. 302(b) & 324---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd---Appreciation of evidence---Absconsion of accused---Scope---Accused was charged for making firing upon the complainant and his friend, wh…
2023 PCrLJ 1404 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD YASEEN alias MAMA GADDI VS State Ss. 302(b) & 324--- Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd---Appreciation of evidence--- Sentence, reduction in--- Mitigating circumstances---Scope---Accused was charged for making firing upon the…
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