Mustafa Zaidi vs Appellant — 1968 SCMR 62

Citation: 1968 SCMR 62

Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan

Year: 1970

Decision Date: 1970-12-31

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Case cited as 1968 SCMR 62

Judgment Text

Court Name: Supreme Court of Pakistan Judge(s):Waheeduddin Ahmad, Hamoodur Rahman, Mujibur Rahman Khan, Sajjad JUDGMENT Reported As: PLD 1971 Supreme Court 677 Result: Appeal accepted Judgment JUDGMENT HAMOODUR RAHMAN, C. J.--This is an appeal by special leave from certain orders passed between the 30th October 1970 and the 12th November 1970, by a learned Single Judge of the High Court of Sind and Baluchistan, Karachi, in proceedings started suo motu in respect of an investigation which was then pending into the cause of death of one, Mustafa Zaidi, an Ex-C. S. P. Officer. The said Mustafa Zaidi was found by the police on the 12th or 13th October 1970, after they had forced entrance into his house in K. D. A. Scheme No, 1, Karachi, lying dead in the bed room and in another room of the same house, the appellant was found lying unconscious on the floor. The Police started proceedings under section 174, Cr. P. C. and sent the appellant to the Jinnah Central Medical Hospital for examination. She regained consciousness there after her stomach was washed. The body of the deceased was sent for autopsy and several incriminating articles were seized from the room in which the body was found. Some nude photographs of the appellant were also seized from certain trunks in a locked garage downstairs. The chemical analysis of the viscera of the deceased and the stomach wash of the appellant disclosed the presence of barbiturates in the viscera and a drug called Librium, a…

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