SULTAN vs THE STATE — 1971 PCRLJ 850

Citation: 1971 PCRLJ 850

Court: Sindh High Court

Year: 1970

Decision Date: 1970-08-07

Parties: SULTAN vs THE STATE

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Case cited as 1971 PCRLJ 850

Judgment Text

Court Name: Sindh High Court Judge(s): Abdul Qadir Sheikh, Muhammad Ali Sayeed Title: SULTAN vs THE STATE Case No.: Criminal Appeal No. 90 of 1967 Date of Judgment:1970-08-07 Reported As: 1971 P Cr. L J 850 Result: Appeal allowed JUDGMENT JUDGMENT ABDUL KADIR SHEIKH, C. J.-This appeal is directed against the judgment of the learned Sessions Judge, Sukkur, convicting the appellant Sultan son of Faiz Muhammad, aged 20 years of an offence under section 302, P. P. C. And sentencing him to transportation for life. It was alleged by the prosecution that on the 6th of March 1966, at about Sohmani the near village Rehmatullah Jatoi, he caused the death of Haleem Jatoi aged 22 years. The motive, according to the prosecution, was that the appellant suspected the deceased to be on illicit intimacy with his wife Mst. Nawazi which matter, however, was referred to the elders and settled on the appellant's under--taking to give 4 girls and Rs. 1,000 as compensation. It is the case of the prosecution that the appellant himself reported the crime at the Duber Police Station of Sukkur District at 7-45 a.m. The next morning, the 7th of March with Shah Nawaz, H. C. Who recorded the First Information Report. Not only the accused is said to have confessed his guilt before the police officer, which admission however, cannot be proved by, virtue of section 25 of the Evidence Act, but the shirt worn by him was blood- stained and so the hatchet said to be the weapon of offence. These articles were…

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