AMIR KHAN vs The STATE — 1972 PCRLJ 609

Citation: 1972 PCRLJ 609

Court: Lahore High Court

Year: 1971

Decision Date: 1971-07-13

Parties: AMIR KHAN vs The STATE

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Case cited as 1972 PCRLJ 609

Judgment Text

Court Name: Lahore High Court Judge(s): Maulvi Mushtaq Hussain, Aslam Riaz Hussain Title: AMIR KHAN vs The STATE Case No.: Criminal Appeal No. 594 of 1970 Date of Judgment:1971-07-13 Reported As: 1972 P Cr. L J 609 Result: Appeal allowed JUDGMENT JUDGMENT Mushtaq Hussain, J.--Amir Khan son of Muhammad Nazir Pathan aged 19 years resident of village Chhab, Police Station Makhad, District Attock, has been convicted under section 302, P. P. C., and sentenced to transportation for life by the learned Sessions Judge, Campbellpur, by his order dated 12- 8-1970, for having caused the death of Amir Khan deceased with revolver Exh. P. 1 on 6-2-1970 at about 2-30 p.m. in a lane in village Chhab, Police Station Makhad, Tehsil, Pindigheb, District Campbellpur. 2. The story of the prosecution is that in the year 1955 the mother of Amir Khan appellant was abducted by a relation of the deceased. She filed a suit for dissolution and the deceased helped her in prosecuting that case. The appellant harboured a grudge against the deceased on that score. A few months before the occurrence, security proceedings were started against the deceased and his brother at the instance of the father of the appellant. Both sides were bound down to the exclusion of the accused. 3. The mother of Khaki Jan P. W. 10 and Amir Khan deceas ed was working at Islamabad as a labourer. She sent a message to her sons that she would be arriving by rail at the Chhab Railway Station by the train which arrives at 1-30 or…

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