MUHAMMAD SIDDIQUE Alias ASHRAF Alias ACHHI AND 3 Others vs The STATE — 1971 SCMR 659

Citation: 1971 SCMR 659

Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan

Year: 1971

Decision Date: 1971-10-08

Parties: MUHAMMAD SIDDIQUE Alias ASHRAF Alias ACHHI AND 3 Others vs The STATE

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Case cited as 1971 SCMR 659

Judgment Text

Court Name: Supreme Court of Pakistan Judge(s): Salahuddin Ahmad, Hamoodur Rahman Title: MUHAMMAD SIDDIQUE Alias ASHRAF Alias ACHHI AND 3 Others vs The STATE Case No.: Petition for Special Leave to Appeal No. 181 of 1971 Date of Judgment:1971-10-08 Reported As: 1971 SCMR 659 Result: Leave refused JUDGMENT JUDGMENT SALAHUDDIN AHMED, J.-The petitioner has challenged the validity of his conviction and sentence of 3 years' rigorous imprisonment under section 307/34 of the Pakistan Penal Code. It has been contended that his conviction could not be legally based upon the evidence of a solitary interested witness viz. Karam Din. According to the medical evidence Karam Din received no less than 8 grievous injuries with some sharp-edged weapon. This fully supports Karam Din's evidence that he was injured 11 times with hatchets by the petitioners. The evidence of motive also lends support to his evidence. We are unable to accept the broad proposition that no con--viction can be based on the solitary evidence of an interested witness. This view is not supported by the decision of this Court in the case of Nazir v. State (PLD 1962 SC 269) as claimed on behalf of the petitioners. In the case under report it has been held that there can never be an inflexible rule that the statement of an `interested' witness can never be accepted without corroboration. Besides it has been held in the case under report that for corroboration it is not necessary that there should be the word of an…

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