Law:

Section:

Penal Code (XLV of 1860)------Ss.302/149, 307/149, 324/149 & 148---Constitution of Pakistan (1973), Art.185(3)---Acquittal---Ocular evidence had come from very highly interested witnesses which had not been corroborated from other independent source--­Acquittal of accused was justified---Petition for leave to appeal against acquittal was dismissed. Ali Ahmad Malik, Advocate Supreme Court and Rana Maqool Ahmad Qadri, Advocate-on-Record (absent) for Petitioner. M.B.Zaman, Senior Advocate Supreme Court and Manzoor Elahi, Advocate-on-Record for Respondents Nos.l to 13. Rao M. Yousaf Khan, Advocate-on-Record for the State. Date of hearing: 21st June, 1989. ORDER ALI HUSSAIN QAZILBASH, J.--This is a petition for leave to appeal against the order of the Lahore High Court, dated 23rd September, 1986. 2. According to the F.I.R. Exh.PP/1, recorded by Muhammad Zulfiqar S.L(PV'-13), S.H.O., Police Station Dinga, District Gujrat, at 8-40 p.m., thirteen persons were charged by Oadar Dad (PW-8) for committing the murder of Fateh Muhammad and injuries to four persons. On their arrest, all the accused were tried under section 302/307/324/149, P.P.C. read with section 148, P.P.C. The trial Court convicted Bahadur Khan, Oadar Dad, Riasat Ali, Muhammad Aslam, Mchdi Khan and Muhammad Ali under section 302/149, P.P.C. and sentenced them to death. Farman All, Zaman, Sardara, Shan. Mian Khan and Ashraf were convicted under section 302/149, P.P.C. and sentenced to life imprisonment. Muhammad RaZ7aq was, however, acquitted. All the accused/ respondents were also convicted under section 307/149, P.P.C. and sentenced to ten years' R.I. each and under section 324/149, P.P.C. and sentenced to three years' R.I. each. They were also convicted under section 148, P.P.C. and sentenced to three years' R.I. each. All the twelve convicts were individually sentenced to pay a fine of Rs.10,000 each and half of this amount was ordered to be paid to the heirs of the deceased and the injured persons equally. In case of failure of payment of fine, all the convicts were to undergo further R.I. for one year. On appeal by the convicts, the High…

Deprecated: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in /home/digixyei/sldsystempk.com/view/master-layout/view_case.php on line 492