FAQIR MUHAMMAD vs THE STATE — 1971 PLD 929

Citation: 1971 PLD 929

Court: Lahore High Court

Year: 1971

Decision Date: 1971-07-27

Parties: FAQIR MUHAMMAD vs THE STATE

Headnotes

Case cited as PLD 1971 Lahore 929

Judgment Text

Court Name: Lahore High Court Judge(s): Ataullah Sajjad Title: FAQIR MUHAMMAD vs THE STATE Case No.: Criminal Revision No, 766 of 1970 Date of Judgment:1971-07-27 Reported As: PLD 1971 Lahore 929 Result: Petition dismissed JUDGMENT JUDGMENT The petitioner Faqir Muhammad was convicted under section 377 of the Pakistan Penal Code, for committing sodomy on Mangta, a boy aged about six or seven years, in Chak No, 224/R. B. in the area of Muhammad Abad, Police Station Peoples Colony, Lyallpur, on 22nd April 1969, in the afternoon and was sentenced to four years' rigorous imprisonment and ten stripes. His appeal before the learned Additional Sessions Judge failed. He has come up in revision to this Court. 2. The evidence against him is that he was sitting with Khair Din (P. W. 2) and smoking Huqqa with him, when he took away the boy on a bicycle. The petitioner brought back the boy on the bicycle at about 2-00 p.m. and dropped him in the presence of Muhammad Hussain (P. W. 5), who is a neighbour of Ghulam Hussain (P. W. 1) the father of the victim. Mangta was at that time weeping. The witness went to the house of Ghulam Hussain. He was told by the boy that he had been sodomised upon by Faqir Muhammad petitioner. The mother of the victim has died and it appears that he is being brought up by his maternal grandmother. The maternal grandmother of Mangta also told Muhammad Hussain P. W. that the boy had been sodomised upon by Faqir Muhammad petitioner. 3. The father of the boy…

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