MOHAMMAD SADIQ AND Another vs THE STATE — 1970 PCRLJ 1066

Citation: 1970 PCRLJ 1066

Court: Lahore High Court

Year: 1969

Decision Date: 1969-12-31

Parties: MOHAMMAD SADIQ AND Another vs THE STATE

Headnotes

Case cited as 1970 PCRLJ 1066

Judgment Text

Court Name: Lahore High Court Judge(s): Muhammad Fazle Ghani Khan, Sher Bahadur Khan Title: MOHAMMAD SADIQ AND Another vs THE STATE Case No.: Criminal Appeal No. 161 of 1967 Date of Judgment:- Reported As: 1970 P Cr. L J 1066 Result: Appeal accepted JUDGMENT JUDGMENT MUHAMMAD FAZLE GHANI KHAN, J.-The appellants, Muhammad Sadiq (24), his younger brother, Dost Muhammad (21), were tried by Ch. Muhammad Rafique Tarar, Additional Sessions Judge, Sargodha, for offences under section 302/34, P. P. C. For causing the death of Muhammad Khan son of Painch, resident of Chak No. 36/MB, Tehsil Khushab, District Sargodha. Both the appellants have been convicted for the offences for which they were tried and have been sentenced to transportation for life each by the order of the trial Court, dated the 5th of January 1967. It is their appeal against their- conviction and sentences. 2. The prosecution story, in brief, is that the deceased Muhammad Khan had obtained some land on lease from Sikandar Khan Baluch (P. W. 6) and while he was busy in ploughing that land at about noon time on 2nd of November 1965, along with his paternal cousin, Hidayat (P. W. 12) and his brother, Shamir (P. W. 13), the appellants came over this field armed with a hatchet and Sangola and started cutting Gowara crop, from near the place where the deceased and the P. W. Were ploughing their land. The deceased left ploughing and went to the field where the appellants were cutting Gowara crop and asked them not to do…

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