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Citation: 1970 PCRLJ 103
Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan
Year: 1954
Decision Date: 1954-05-31
Parties: TAJA vs THE CROWN
Case cited as 1970 PCRLJ 103
Court Name: Supreme Court of Pakistan Judge(s): Muhammad Shahabuddin, Sir Abdul Rashid, Alvin R. Cornelius Title: TAJA vs THE CROWN Case No.: Criminal Appeal No. 9 of 1954 Criminal Appeal No. 565 of 1953 Date of Judgment:1954-05-31 Reported As: 1970 P Cr. L J 103 Result: Appeal dismissed JUDGMENT JUDGMENT ABDUL RASHID, C. J.-This is an appeal, by special leave, from a decision of the High Court of Judicature at Lahore, dated the 9th December 1953, confirming the sentence of death awarded to Taja appellant by the Additional Sessions Judge of Lahore. Mst. Daulan, the murdered woman, was a widow of one Allah Ditta. She was aged sixty-five, and was living all alone in village Pirkot. As Allah Ditta had left no male heirs, Mst. Daulan was in possession of about twenty kanals of land and a house belonging to her deceased husband. It is stated that after the death of Mst. Daulan the property of her deceased husband would have been inherited by Piran Ditta, the at her of Taja appellant, under the Customary Law. It is the case for the prosecution that Taja appellant killed Mst. Daulan in order to get possession of the land and the house belonging to his uncle, Allah Ditta. The principal evidence in this case consists of the statement of Faqir approver (P. W. 1). He is the brother-in-law of Taja appellant. In the month of November 1952 Faqir left his village Mozang Nauabad and went to village Traggawali to harvest paddy crop as a labourer. He and Taja appellant harvested the paddy…
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