Case Details

Citation(s)
2020 SLG 968 2020 SLD 968 2020 SCMR 1013
Supreme Court of Pakistan
Criminal Petitions Nos. 574 and 575 of 2019, decided on 5th May, 2020, Date of hearing: 5th May, 2020.
UMAR ATA BANDIAL, JUSTICE QAZI MUHAMMAD AMIN AHMED, JUSTICE
Tariq Mehmood Abbasi, Advocate Supreme Court and Syed Rifaqat Hussain Shah, Advocate-on-Record for Petitioners (in both cases). Niazullah Niazi, Advocate General, I.C.T. along with Mubarak SHO Shahzad Town, Azhar, SI/I.O. for the State.

TASAR MEHMOOD AND ANOTHERS

VS

THE STATE AND OTHERS

Law: Penal Code (XLV of 1860)

Section: 302(b),392

Law: Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984)

Section: 22

Law: Police Rules, 1934

Section: 26,32

(a) Penal Code (XLV of 1860)--- ----Ss. 302(b) & 392---Qatl-i-amd, robbery---Reappraisal of evidence---Occurrence took place at 9:45 p.m., and the complaint was recorded promptly at 11:45 p.m. at the spot---Injured witness, who received a fire shot was examined under a police docket---Autopsy of the co-accused, who died due to firing of his own accomplices, was carried out at 10:30 a.m. the following day---Spot inspection confirmed the incident---Integrity of initial investigation was beyond doubt and it was through an investigative process that the police reached the accused and co-accused, who were kept in judicial lock up and remitted into police custody only after they had been identified by the injured in the test identification parade---Weapons recovered pursuant to disclosures were forensically matched with the casings dispatched earlier than arrest of accused and co-accused---Evidence comprising of natural witnesses, with dead body of a co-accused, squarely constituted proof beyond doubt---Absence of watchman from the witness box did not raise any adverse inference as the remainder of the witnesses were in place during the trial---Petition for leave to appeal was dismissed and leave was refused. (b) Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984)--- ----Art. 22---Police Rules, 1934, R. 26.32---High Court (Lahore) Rules and Orders, Vol. III, Part-C---Test identification parade---Scope---Process of test identification parade had to be essentially carried out, having regard to the exigencies of each case, in a fair and non-collusive manner, free from the taints of prejudice---Such exercise was not an immutable ritual, inconsequential non-performance whereof, may cause failure of prosecution case, which otherwise was structured upon clean and probable evidence. JUDGMENT QAZI MUHAMMAD AMIN AHMED, JUSTICE:---.--- Tasar Mehmood and Shahbaz Ahmed, petitioners, along with two others trespassed into a private hospital managed by Dr. Yousaf Ali (PW-11), located within the limits of Police Station Shahzad Town Islamabad to commit robbery on 26.11.2013 at 9:45 p.m.; as the attendants on the reception resisted the intruders, they opened indiscriminate fire; Zahid Ali Khan (PW-10)…
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