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2022 PCrLJN 47 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ADIL VS State Ss. 302, 324, 365, 376 & 34---anti-Terrorism act (XXVII of 1997), S. 7---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, kidnapping or abducting with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine a person, rape, common intention, act of…
2022 PCrLJN 47 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ADIL VS State Ss. 302, 324, 365, 376 & 34---anti-Terrorism act (XXVII of 1997), S. 7---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, kidnapping or abducting with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine a person, rape, common intention, act of…
2022 PCrLJN 47 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ADIL VS State Ss. 302, 324, 365, 376 & 34---anti-Terrorism act (XXVII of 1997), S. 7---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, kidnapping or abducting with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine a person, rape, common intention, act of…
2022 PCrLJN 47 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ADIL VS State Ss. 302, 324, 365, 376 & 34---anti-Terrorism act (XXVII of 1997), S. 7---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, kidnapping or abducting with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine a person, rape, common intention, act of…
2022 PCrLJN 47 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ADIL VS State Ss. 302, 324, 365, 376 & 34---anti-Terrorism act (XXVII of 1997), S. 7---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, kidnapping or abducting with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine a person, rape, common intention, act of…
2022 PCrLJN 47 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ADIL VS State Ss. 302, 324, 365, 376 & 34---anti-Terrorism act (XXVII of 1997), S. 7---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), art. 129(g)---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, kidnapping or abducting with intent secretly and wrongfully to con…
2022 PCrLJN 49 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
FAROOQ VS State art. 129(g)--- Withholding material witness--- Scope--- Despite availability of disinterested witnesses, non-examination of such witnesses in the case there would be inference that in case such witnesses had been examined, t…
2022 PCrLJN 49 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
FAROOQ VS State Ss. 392, 397 & 34---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Art.129(g)---Robbery, robbery or dacoity with attempt to cause death or grievous hurt, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Withholding material evidence---Effect--…
2022 PCrLJN 49 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
FAROOQ VS State S. 103---Search to be made in presence of witnesses---Scope---Under provisions of S. 103, Cr.P.C., the officials making searches, recoveries and arrests, are reasonably required to associate private persons---More particular…
2022 PCrLJN 49 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
FAROOQ VS State Benefit of doubt---Principle---Conviction must be based and founded on unimpeachable evidence and certainty of guilt---Any doubt arising in the prosecution case must be resolved in favour of the accused.
2022 PCrLJN 49 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
FAROOQ VS State Ss. 392, 397 & 34---Robbery, robbery or dacoity with attempt to cause death or grievous hurt, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Contradictions in the statements of witnesses---Scope---Accused were charged for loo…
2022 PCrLJN 49 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
FAROOQ VS State Ss. 392, 397 & 34---Robbery, robbery or dacoity with attempt to cause death or grievous hurt, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Scope---Accused were charged for looting the valuable articles fr…
2022 PCrLJN 50 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ABDULLAH VS State S. 342---Examination of accused---All the incriminating piece of evidence available on record in shape of examination-in-chief, cross-examination or re-examination of witnesses were required to be put to the accused, if th…
2022 PCrLJN 50 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ABDULLAH VS State Benefit of doubt---Principle---If a single circumstance creating a reasonable doubt in the mind of a prudent man comes in the evidence of the prosecution, its benefit must go to accused not as a matter of grace or concessi…
2022 PCrLJN 50 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ABDULLAH VS State Ss. 302(b), 337-H(2), 114, 148 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, rash or negligent act to endanger human life or personal safety of others, abettor present when offence is committed, rioting armed with deadly weapon, unlawful assembly--…
2022 PCrLJN 50 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ABDULLAH VS State Ss. 302(b), 337-H(2), 114, 148 & 149---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 342---Qatl-i-amd, rash or negligent act to endanger human life or personal safety of others, abettor present when offence is committed, rioting…
2022 PCrLJN 50 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ABDULLAH VS State Ss. 302(b), 337-H(2), 114, 148 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, rash or negligent act to endanger human life or personal safety of others, abettor present when offence is committed, rioting armed with deadly weapon, unlawful assembly--…
2022 PCrLJN 51 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ZAHIR ALI VS State Ss. 324, 337-J & 34---attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, hurt by poison, common intention---appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---allegation against accused was that he gave poison to his wife in food---Record showed t…
2022 PCrLJN 51 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ZAHIR ALI VS State Ss. 324, 337-J & 34---attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, hurt by poison, common intention---appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Contradictions in the statement of witnesses---Effect---allegation against the accused w…
2022 PCrLJN 51 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ZAHIR ALI VS State Motive---Scope---Motive was not sine qua non for proving offence---Absence of motive was also no ground to doubt the truth of prosecution case.
2022 PCrLJN 52 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
KHAN AFZAL VS State S. 9(c)---Possession of 20 kilograms of charas---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Safe custody---Scope---Prosecution case was that twenty packets of charas, each weighing one kilogram, was recovered from the…
2022 PCrLJN 53 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ABU YAHYA ASIF VS State Ss. 3 & 4---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 417(2)---Appreciation of evidence--- Appeal against acquittal--- Illegal dispossession---Evidence and circumstances of the case showed that the complainant was clai…
2022 PCrLJN 54 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Hafiz ABDUL GHAFFAR VS NADEEM Ss. 3 & 4--- Prevention of illegal possession of property--- Scope---Appellant/complainant had stated in his direct complaint that he was dispossessed forcibly by the respondents when he along with his boys and…
2022 PCrLJN 56 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ABDUL RAHEEM VS State S. 497---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 302, 201, 377 & 511---Qatl-i-amd, causing disappearance of evidence of offence or giving false information to screen offender, unnatural offences and attempt to commit offences---…
2022 PCrLJN 57 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ZIAUDDIN PATHAN VS State Benefit of doubt---Scope---Conviction must be based and founded on unimpeachable evidence and certainty of guilt---Any doubt arising in the prosecution case must be resolved in favour of the accused.
2022 PCrLJN 57 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ZIAUDDIN PATHAN VS State Benefit of doubt---Scope---accused cannot be deprived of benefit of doubt merely because there is only one circumstance which creates doubt in the prosecution story.
2022 PCrLJN 57 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ZIAUDDIN PATHAN VS State Benefit of doubt---Scope---accused is entitled to be extended benefit of doubt as a matter of right and not as a grace or concession.
2022 PCrLJN 57 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ZIAUDDIN PATHAN VS State Ss. 420, 466, 469, 471, 109 & 34---Prevention of Corruption act (II of 1947), S. 5---Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property, forgery of record of Court or of public register, forgery for purpose of h…
2022 PCrLJN 59 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
DUA FATIMA VS HOME DEPARTMENT art. 199---Constitutional petition---Quashing of FIR---Petitioner, the alleged abductee, had recorded her statement before the Investigating Officer, present in Court, contending that she had contracted marriag…
2022 PCrLJN 60 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SHOUKAT ALI VS MUHAMMAD ISMAIL Ss. 406, 420, 468, 471 & 506---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), Ss. 417 & 249-A---Criminal breach of trust, cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property, forgery, using as genuine a forged docume…
2022 PCrLJN 62 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MASHOOQUE ALI VS State Ss. 302 & 34---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 164---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Confessional statement---Scope---Prosecution case was that the accused along with co-accused perso…
2022 PCrLJN 62 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MASHOOQUE ALI VS State Ss. 302 & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Prosecution case was that the accused along with his co-accused persons committed murder of the complainant's sister---Allegation of causing mur…
2022 PCrLJN 62 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MASHOOQUE ALI VS State S. 34---Common intention---Scope---Charge of sharing common intention would always require proof that gathering of more than one was with active knowledge of ultimate consequence of their gathering i.e. determined goa…
2022 PCrLJN 63 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
USMAN MOAZZAM VS State Ss. 435, 439, 439-a & 561-a---accused were aggrieved of the order passed by Trial Court whereby Trial Court while allowing petition of complainant to produce the joint investigation report in the court as exhibit turn…
2022 PCrLJN 65 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD NAWAZ VS VIII CIVIL JUDGE AND JUDICIAL MAGISTRATE, HYDERABAD S. 173---Report of police officer---addition or deletion of legal provision---Scope---applicant was aggrieved of an order passed by Magistrate whereby charge under S. 324…
2022 PCrLJN 66 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
WALI MUHAMMAD alias HAJJAN VS State S. 498--- Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 337-A(i), 337-F(i), 337-F(v), 114, 504, 148 & 149---Shajjah-i-khafifah, damiyah, hashimah, abettor present when offence committed, intentional insult with intent to…
2022 PCrLJN 67 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ALI GUL VS State S. 497--- Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 302, 506(2), 337-H(2), 337-A(i), 337-F(i), 114, 148 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, criminal intimidation, hurt by rash or negligent act, shajjah-i-khafifah, damiyah, abettor present when offence…
2022 PCrLJN 67 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ALI GUL VS State S. 497---Bail---Scope---Deeper appreciation of evidence is not permissible while deciding the bail plea of the accused and material collected during investigation is to be assessed tentatively.
2022 PCrLJN 69 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SADAQAT ALI VS State S. 497---Sindh arms act (V of 2013), S. 24---Possession of illicit weapon and ammunition---Bail, grant of---Further inquiry---Prosecution case was that a weapon of offence, pistol, was recovered on the pointation of acc…
2022 PCrLJN 70 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
WASEEM KHAN VS State Ss. 419, 420, 468, 471, 448, 506 & 34---Cheating by personation, cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property, forgery for purpose of cheating, using as genuine a forged document, house trespass, criminal inti…
2022 PCrLJN 70 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
WASEEM KHAN VS State Ss. 419, 420, 468, 471, 448, 506 & 34---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Art. 129(g)---Cheating by personation, cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property, forgery for purpose of cheating, using as genuine a f…
2022 PCrLJN 70 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
WASEEM KHAN VS State Ss. 419, 420, 468, 471, 448, 506 & 34---Cheating by personation, cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property, forgery for purpose of cheating, using as genuine a forged document, house trespass, criminal inti…
2022 PCrLJN 70 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
WASEEM KHAN VS State Ss. 419, 420, 468, 471, 448, 506 & 34---Cheating by personation, cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property, forgery for purpose of cheating, using as genuine a forged document, house trespass, criminal inti…
2022 PCrLJN 70 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
WASEEM KHAN VS State S. 417---appeal against acquittal---Interference---Scope---Judgment of acquittal is to be interfered only when there is non-reading and gross mis-reading of the evidence, resulting the miscarriage of justice and on peru…
2022 PCrLJN 72 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ABDUL JABBAR VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Sentence, reduction in---Related and interested witnesses---Scope---Accused was charged for committing murder of complainant's sister and inju…
2022 PCrLJN 72 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ABDUL JABBAR VS State Motive---Scope---If the prosecution asserted a motive but failed to prove the same then failure on the part of prosecution might be reacted against the sentence of death passed against the convict on the charge of murd…
2022 PCrLJN 72 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ABDUL JABBAR VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd---Appreciation of evidence---Sentence, reduction in---Accused was charged for committing murder of complainant's sister and injuring another person by firing--…
2022 PCrLJN 72 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ABDUL JABBAR VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Sentence, reduction in---Motive was proved---Scope---Accused was charged for committing murder of complainant's sister and injuring another pe…
2022 PCrLJN 73 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MEHTAB alias KALA VS State Ss. 324, 353 & 34---Sindh arms act (V of 2013), S. 23(1)(a)---anti-Terrorism act (XXVII of 1997), S. 7---Qatl-i-amd, assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his public duty, common inte…
2022 PCrLJN 73 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MEHTAB alias KALA VS State Ss. 324, 353 & 34---Sindh arms act (V of 2013), S. 23(1)(a)---anti-Terrorism act (XXVII of 1997), S. 7---Qatl-i-amd, assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his public duty, common inte…
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