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Petitioner: NAZIR AHMED alias JEERA VS Respondent: THE STATE
Court Name: Supreme Court of Pakistan Judge(s): Rehmat Hussain Jaffery, Nasir-ul-Mulk Title: NAZIR AHMED alias JEERA vs THE STATE Case No.: Jail Petition No,989 of 2009 Date of Judgment:2010-06-04 Reported As: 2010 SCMR 1741 Result: Leave granted
Judgment ORDER ' NASIR-UL-MULK, J.---Though the petitioner is the sole accused in the case, the learned counsel for the petitioner contended that it was an unseen crime.' That all the eye-witnesses are closely related to the deceased; that the medical report showing blackening on the single injury received by the deceased is contradicted by the site plan, which shows that distance between the accused and the deceased at the time of occurrence was 27 feet; that the prosecution has attributed contradictory motive for the crime. That in any case the petitioner ought not to have been awarded sentence of death. Leave to appeal is granted to reexamine the evidence and the quantum of sentence.