Law: Pakistan Penal Code (PPC),1860

Section: 302(b)

Pakistan Penal Code, 1860 (XLV of 1860)-- ----S. 302(b)--Qatl-e-amd--Conviction and sentence--Delay in post-mortem--Ocular account--It was a case of delayed post-mortem, which casts serious doubt and an inference can be drawn that intervening period was consumed in fabricating prosecution story after preliminary investigation--There is no explanation at all available on record for such delay--Such noticeable delay in post-mortem examination of dead body of deceased is generally suggestive of a real possibility that time had been consumed by police in procuring and planting eye-witnesses before preparing police, papers necessary for same.                                   [Para 6] A 2011 SCMR 1190. Pakistan Penal Code, 1860 (XLV of 1860)-- ----S. 302(b)--Dishonest improvement by witness--Qatl-e-amd--Conviction and sentence--It is settled by now that dishonest improvements made by a witness in his/her statement to strengthen prosecution case casts serious doubt about veracity of his statement and makes same untrustworthy and unreliable.                                                                                              [Para 12] B 2024 SCMR 1310. Pakistan Penal Code, 1860 (XLV of 1860)-- ----S. 302(b)--Testimony of witness--There is no cavil to proposition that when a witness improves his statement to strengthen prosecution case and moment it is concluded that improvements were made deliberately and with mala fide intention, testimony of such witness become unreliable--The Supreme Court of Pakistan has observed in a plethora of…