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2023 PCrLJ 1530 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
MUHAMMAD NAWAZ VS State S. 9(c)---Possession of narcotic---Appreciation of evidence---Minor contradictions in the statements of witnesses---Not consequential---Prosecution case was that 32 kilograms charas in 27 packets and one packet of op…
2023 PCrLJ 1578 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
MUHAMMAD AZEEM VS State Benefit of doubt---Principle---Benefit of even a single doubt is to be extended to the accused.
2023 PCrLJ 1578 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
MUHAMMAD AZEEM VS State Ss. 302(b), 324, 147, 148 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, rioting, rioting armed with deadly weapon, unlawful assembly---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Delay of two months and twelve…
2023 PCrLJ 1578 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
MUHAMMAD AZEEM VS State Ss. 302(b), 324, 147, 148 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, rioting, rioting armed with deadly weapon, unlawful assembly---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Night time occurrence--- Source…
2023 PCrLJ 1578 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
MUHAMMAD AZEEM VS State Ss. 302(b), 324, 147, 148 & 149---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Art. 129(g)---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, rioting, rioting armed with deadly weapon, unlawful assembly---Appreciation of evidence---Benef…
2023 PCrLJ 1619 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
ALI SHER VS State Ss. 9(c) & 48 [as amended by the Control of Narcotic Substances (Amendment) Act, 2022]--- Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 12---Possession of 3000 grams of charas---Conviction and sentence as per (Amending Act)---Retrospecti…
2023 PCrLJ 1681 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
NAZEER AHMED VS State S. 11-F(6)---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Arts. 38, 39 & 40---Member of proscribed organization---Appreciation of evidence---Possession of a flag of a proscribed organization "Daesh" along with narcotic substances---…
2023 PCrLJ 1741 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
NIAZ MUHAMMAD VS State Ss. 302(b), 365 & 34---anti-Terrorism act (XXVII of 1997), S. 7(e)---Qatl-i-amd, act of terrorism---appreciation of evidence---Ordinary kidnapping for ransom case---Not an act of terrorism---accused were charged for a…
2023 PCrLJ 1741 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
NIAZ MUHAMMAD VS State Ss. 302(b), 365 & 34---anti-Terrorism act (XXVII of 1997), S. 7(e)---Qatl-i-amd, act of terrorism---appreciation of evidence---Recovery of incriminating material on disclosure of accused---Reliance---accused were char…
2023 PCrLJ 1741 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
NIAZ MUHAMMAD VS State Ss. 302(b), 365, 201 & 34---anti-Terrorism act (XXVII of 1997), S. 7(e)---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 417(2-a)---Qatl-i-amd, act of terrorism---appreciation of evidence---appeal against acquittal---Disclos…
2023 PCrLJ 1792 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
TAWEEZ KHAN VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Art. 129(g)---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Withholding important witness---Accused was charged for committing murder of the son of the compla…
2023 PCrLJ 1792 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
TAWEEZ KHAN VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Delay of more than three and a half hour in lodging the FIR---Accused was charged for committing murder of the son of the complainant and a lad…
2023 PCrLJ 1792 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
TAWEEZ KHAN VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Sole eye-witness---Accused was charged for committing murder of the son of the complainant and a lady by firing---Ocular account deposed by sol…
2023 PCrLJ 1792 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
TAWEEZ KHAN VS State Medical evidence---Scope---Medical evidence simply disclosed the nature of injuries, kind of weapon and duration of time as well as the cause of death, but it cannot signify the author of injuries.
2023 PCrLJ 1792 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
TAWEEZ KHAN VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Recovery of eleven crime empties from the spot---Inconsequential---Accused was charged for committing murder of the son of the complainant and…
2023 PCrLJ 1792 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
TAWEEZ KHAN VS State Proof---Suspicion---Scope---Suspicion, howsoever, grave or strong, can never be a proper substitute for the standard of proof required in a criminal case, i.e. beyond a reasonable doubt.
2023 PCrLJ 1792 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
TAWEEZ KHAN VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Mode and manner of the occurrence doubtful---Accused was charged for committing murder of the son of the complainant and a lady by firing---Rec…
2023 PCrLJ 1792 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
TAWEEZ KHAN VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Call Data Record (CDR)---Accused was charged for committing murder of the son of the complainant and a lady by firing---In the present case, th…
2023 PCrLJ 1792 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
TAWEEZ KHAN VS State Witness---Hostile witness---Scope---No doubt a witness who has been declared hostile will not become unworthy of reliance, and his evidence cannot be brushed aside if found true and credible, but since said witness has…
2023 PCrLJ 1792 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
TAWEEZ KHAN VS State Conviction---Conjectures and probabilities---Not the substitute of proof---In criminal cases finding of guilt against an accused person cannot be based merely on the high probabilities that may be inferred from evidence…
2023 PCrLJ 1823 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
MUSHTAQ AHMED VS State S. 302(b)---Qatl-i-amd---Appreciation of evidence---CCTV footage---Forensic test not carried out---Effect---Accused was charged for committing murder of the uncle of the complainant---Prosecution alleged that the accu…
2023 PCrLJ 1823 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
MUSHTAQ AHMED VS State S. 302(b)--- Qatl-i-amd--- Appreciation of evidence--- Material contradictions between the statements of witnesses---Effect---Accused was charged for committing murder of the uncle of the complainant---Record showed t…
2023 PCrLJ 1823 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
MUSHTAQ AHMED VS State Benefit of doubt---Principle---If a single circumstance creats reasonable doubt in a prudent mind regarding guilt of an accused, then the accused will be entitled to such benefit not as a matter of grace and concessio…
2023 PCrLJ 1823 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
MUSHTAQ AHMED VS State S. 302(b)---Qatl-i-amd---Appreciation of evidence---Admission of accused before the police---Non-admissible---Accused was charged for committing murder of the uncle of the complainant---Admittedly, the admission of ac…
2023 PCrLJ 1823 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
MUSHTAQ AHMED VS State S. 302(b)---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 103---Qatl-i-amd---Appreciation of evidence---Recovery of currency from the house of circumstantial witness---Non-associating of private witnesses during recovery pr…
2023 PCrLJ 1823 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
MUSHTAQ AHMED VS State S. 302(b)---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Art. 22---Qatl-i-amd---Appreciation of evidence---Non-conducting of identification parade of the accused---Effect---Accused was charged for committing murder of the uncle of…
2023 PLD 22 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
ABDUL KAREEM VS MUHAMMAD BASIL arts. 79 & 113---Document---Proof of execution---Document could not be used as evidence until two attesting witnesses at least had been called for the purpose of proving its execution---Plaintiff was under leg…
2023 PLD 22 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
ABDUL KAREEM VS MUHAMMAD BASIL Ss. 2(d) & 10---Promise---Scope---Consent as on essential requirement of a contract---Burden of proof---Suit for recovery of property (gold) or in the alternative prevalent market price filed by the plaintiff/…
2023 PLD 22 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
ABDUL KAREEM VS MUHAMMAD BASIL S. 115---Concurrent findings---Revisional jurisdiction of High Court---Scope---Scope of revisional jurisdiction is limited---High Court while exercising revisional jurisdiction can not interfere in the concurr…
2023 YLR 54 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
ABDUL GHAFFAR VS FAIZI BIBI S.272---Succession certificate---Tarka---Islamic law--- Deceased/government servant (issueless) was martyred during service and Government declared him Shahaeed and announced compensation amount for his legal hei…
2023 YLR 81 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
TALAL VS State S. 9(c)---Recovery of narcotics---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Safe custody---Contradictory statements---Withholding best evidence---Scope---Accused was convicted for having been found in possession of 8 kilo…
2023 YLR 81 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
TALAL VS State Benefit of doubt---Scope---Prosecution, in order to bring home guilt, must bring reliable evidence in support of its charge and a single doubt in the case against an accused would be sufficient to acquit him instead of existe…
2023 YLR 107 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
ABDUL NASIR VS State Ss. 302(b), 324 & 34---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Sentence, quantum of---Mitigating circumstances---Scope---Accused were charged for committing murder of pare…
2023 YLR 107 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
ABDUL NASIR VS State Ss. 302(b), 324 & 34---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Sentence, reduction in---Recovery of weapon of offence and crime empties---Scope---Accused were charged for…
2023 YLR 107 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
ABDUL NASIR VS State Ss. 302(b), 324 & 34---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Sentence, reduction in---Ocular account supported by medical evidence---Scope---Accused were charged for com…
2023 YLR 107 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
ABDUL NASIR VS State Ss. 302(b), 324 & 34---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Sentence, reduction in---Delay of about six hours in lodging the FIR---Scope---Accused were charged for comm…
2023 YLR 107 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
ABDUL NASIR VS State S. 342---Examination of accused---Scope---If a piece of evidence or a circumstance is not put to accused persons at the time of recording their statements under S.342, Cr.P.C., the same could not be considered against t…
2023 YLR 107 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
ABDUL NASIR VS State Witness--- Interested and related witness--- Reliance--- Scope--- Mere relation of witness with the deceased was no ground to discard their testimonies if their evidence was found entirely independent and truthful, ther…
2023 YLR 162 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
NAQEEBULLAH VS State S. 497---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 365 & 34---Kidnapping or abducting with intent to secretly and wrongfully confine person, common intention---Bail, grant of---Scope---Allegation against accused persons was that th…
2023 YLR 162 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
NAQEEBULLAH VS State S. 497--- Bail--- Scope--- Mere heinousness of offence is not enough to withhold bail.
2023 YLR 162 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
NAQEEBULLAH VS State S. 497---Bail---Scope---Bail is not to be withheld as punishment---No legal or moral compulsion exists to keep the people in jail merely on the allegation that they have committed offence punishable with death or transp…
2023 YLR 162 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
NAQEEBULLAH VS State S. 497---Bail---Benefit of doubt---Scope---Accused is entitled for benefit of doubt even at bail stage.
2023 YLR 162 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
NAQEEBULLAH VS State S. 497--- Bail--- Scope--- If offence did not fall within prohibitory clause of S. 497, Cr.P.C. bail was to be granted and refusal was an exception.
2023 YLR 180 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
ABDUL GHAFOOR VS KHAIR BIBI Ss. 122 & 123---Gift, essentials of---Proof of factum---Cancellation/ rectification of mutation entries---Respondent/plaintiff (pardanashin lady) denied gift stating that she never went to revenue office for tran…
2023 YLR 180 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
ABDUL GHAFOOR VS KHAIR BIBI arts. 117 & 118---When a person alleged that the illiterate/parda observing lady had gifted the properties, the burden of proof would lie on beneficiary of gift deed.
2023 YLR 180 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
ABDUL GHAFOOR VS KHAIR BIBI S. 115---Revisional jurisdiction---Scope---Evidence, possibility of different view of---Scope---High Court could not interfere in concurrent findings of courts below unless the judgments/orders of the courts woul…
2023 YLR 373 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
MUHAMMAD RAMZAN VS State Witness---appreciation of evidence---Scope---If statement of a witness was disbelieved in respect of co-accused then the conviction could not sustain alone on the basis of statement of such witness unless they were…
2023 YLR 373 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
MUHAMMAD RAMZAN VS State art. 40--- Recovery--- Recovery of incriminating material on the pointation of accused---Scope---Mere recovery on the pointation of accused could not fulfil the requirement of art. 40 of the Qanun-e-Shahadat, 1984--…
2023 YLR 373 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
MUHAMMAD RAMZAN VS State Benefit of doubt---Principle---Persecu-tion was duty bound to prove its case beyond reasonable doubt---If any single and slightest doubt was create, the benefit of same must go to the accused.
2023 YLR 373 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
MUHAMMAD RAMZAN VS State Ss. 394 & 34---Robbery, common intention---appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Recovery of weapon of offence---Reliance---Scope---accused was charged that he and co-accused made firing upon the complainant…
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