PIRANO vs The STATE — 1972 PCRLJ 165

Citation: 1972 PCRLJ 165

Court: Sindh High Court

Year: 1971

Decision Date: 1971-06-23

Parties: PIRANO vs The STATE

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Case cited as 1972 PCRLJ 165

Judgment Text

Court Name: Sindh High Court Judge(s): Agha Ali Haider, Muhammad Ali Sayeed Title: PIRANO vs The STATE Case No.: Criminal Appeal No. 224 of 1968 Date of Judgment:1971-06-23 Reported As: 1972 P Cr. L J 165 Result: Appeal accepted JUDGMENT JUDGMENT Agha Ali Hyder, J.--The appellant was convicted by the learned Additional Sessions Judge, Jacobabad, for an offence under section 13-E of the West Pakistan Arms Ordinance of 1965, and sentence to undergo R. I. for two years. Aggrieved by the judgment of conviction and sentence, he has come in Appeal. 2. The prosecution story is that, on 26-4-1966, the appellant came to be arrested from his village in connection with a murder case. It is stated that he had volunteered to produce a gun. He had taken the police party inside the house and produced a . 12 bore single-barrelled gun from the roof. As the appellant could not produce any licence, a case was registered against him under section 13-E, of the Arms Ordinance, which came to be challaned on 13-5-1966. 3. The appellant in his statement denied the allegations made against him. 4. Mr. Azizullah Shaikh, learned counsel for the appellant, did not advance any argument in this appeal presumably because the appellant had already undergone the sentence, which was concurrent with the sentence awarded in the main case. However, it is to be noted that the S. H. O., namely, Imam Din, did not choose to state that he had asked for the production of the licence. It is true, that Bagh the…

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