Case Details

Citation(s)
1999 SLG 473 1999 SLD 473 1999 SCMR 2283
Supreme Court of Pakistan
Criminal Petition for Leave to Appeal No. 465-L of 1997, decision dated: 4-01-1999. (On appeal from the judgment dated 21-7-1997 of the Lahore High Court passed in Criminal Appeal No.293 of 1994)
SH. RIAZ AHMED AND MUNIR A. SHEIKH, JJ
Raja Muhammad Anwar, Senior Advocate Supreme Court and Ch. Talib Hussain, Advocate-on-Record for Petitioner. Nemo for the State

MUHAMMAD AFZAL alias SEEMA

VS

THE STATE

Law:

Section:

Penal Code (XLV of 1860)--Ss. 306, 308 & 311---Constitution of Pakistan (1973), Art. 185(3)---Delay of eight days in filing the petition for leave to appeal was condoned as the accused was minor of thirteen years at the time of commission of the offence---Leave to appeal was granted by Supreme Court to consider whether the accused could be imprisoned in jail for indefinite period till the payment of Diyat money under S. 311, P.P.C. ORDER MUNIR A. SHEIKH, J.---This petition for leave to appeal is directed against the judgment dated 21-7-1997 of the Lahore High Court passed in Criminal Appeal No.293 of 1994. 2. This petition is barred by time by eight days. For reasons recorded in the application seeking condonation of delay and keeping in view that the petitioner was minor of 13 years old when the offence was committed, we condone the delay. 3. The petitioner alongwith other was tried under section…
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