MANTAZUDDIN Alias MANTAJ MEA vs The STATE — 1971 SCMR 14

Citation: 1971 SCMR 14

Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan

Year: 1970

Decision Date: 1970-12-31

Parties: MANTAZUDDIN Alias MANTAJ MEA vs The STATE

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Case cited as 1971 SCMR 14

Judgment Text

Court Name: Supreme Court of Pakistan Judge(s): Hamoodur Rahman, Mujibur Rahman Khan Title: MANTAZUDDIN Alias MANTAJ MEA vs The STATE Case No.:Criminal Appeal No. 80 of 1966 Petition for Special Leave to Appeal No. 69- JUDGMENT Reported As: 1971 SCMR 14 Result: Petition dismissed Judgment JUDGMENT HAMOODUR RAHMAN, C. J.-The petitioner was convicted under section 368 of the Pakistan Penal Code and sentenced to suffer rigorous imprisonment for five years by the Assistant Ses--sions Judge, Noakhali. His conviction and sentence have been upheld by a Division Bench of the High Court of East Pakistan, on appeal. The petitioner now seeks special leave to appeal to this Court. The allegation against him is that he kept a boy of about 12 years, called Millat, confined in his house for a period of about a month and a half knowing that the said boy had been kidnapped by some other person from the lawful guardianship of his own parents. The boy, who was missing from the house of his father from the 4th or 5th of April 1964, was, in fact, recovered from the house of the petitioner on 18th of July 1964. The defence set up on behalf of the petitioner does not challenge, that the boy had been abducted by a person referred to as "Babriwala", confined by him in his house for a month, thereafter confined for another month and a half in the house of Idris Mian and then for 4/5 days in the house of one, Ataur Rahman, who in his turn brought him to the house of the petitioner and left him…

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