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Lahore High Court
Crl. Appeal No.615/2012
PRESENT; (Aalia Neelum) JUDGE
07.04.2014. Appellants by: M/s Ghulam Murtaza Khan and Muhammad Ijaz, Advocates for the appellant. State by: Mr.Saeed Ahmed Sheikh, Addl. Prosecutor General. Complainant by: Mr.Shahid Nawaz Langrial, Advocate for the complainant.
Crl. Appeal No.615/2012
PRESENT; (Aalia Neelum) JUDGE
07.04.2014. Appellants by: M/s Ghulam Murtaza Khan and Muhammad Ijaz, Advocates for the appellant. State by: Mr.Saeed Ahmed Sheikh, Addl. Prosecutor General. Complainant by: Mr.Shahid Nawaz Langrial, Advocate for the complainant.
(Imran Haider alias Mani V. The State etc)
Law: Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), 1898
Section: 302
Core Legal Points / Headnotes:
Criminal trial — Appreciation of evidence — Benefit of doubt.
Where ocular account is doubtful due to contradictions, delay in lodging FIR, and absence of independent corroboration, conviction cannot be sustained. Benefit of every reasonable doubt must go to the accused.
S. 302(b) PPC — Murder — Conviction on same evidence disbelieved for co-accused.
When the same set of witnesses and evidence has been disbelieved qua co-accused (who were acquitted and whose acquittal was upheld up to the Supreme Court), conviction of a remaining accused cannot be maintained without independent corroboration.
– Relied on:
Akhtar Ali v. The State (PLJ 2008 SC 269)