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2008 SCMR 1355

ASAD NAVEED alias DANGAR vs THE STATE

Citation2008 SCMR 1355
CourtSupreme Court of Pakistan
Case No.Crl. Petitions Nos.660 and 661-L of 2002
Date2003-12-23
Judge(s)Faqir Muhammad Khokhar, Karamat Nazir Bhandari, Munir A. Sheikh
ResultLeave granted

ORDER

1. ' By this common order, we propose to decide both the titled petitions.

2. ' The petitioner-convict Asad Naveed has filed Criminal Petition No,660-L of 2002 seeking his acquittal whereas Criminal Petition No,661-L of 2002 has been filed by the complainant for enhancement of his sentence. The learned Judge of the High Court came to the following conclusions in the impugned judgment:-- "If I believe the version of the Tariq appellant mentioned above in totality then it becomes a case of acquittal but according to my considered opinion, neither the complainant party nor accused approached the Court with clean hands. Both are telling a lie, they have suppressed their role at the time of occurrence. In my considered opinion, fight had taken place only between Asad Naveed and Shah Hussain deceased and it was Asad Naveed who fired a fatal shot on the person of the deceased. Had the other four accused persons were having with them fire-arms then the damage should have been at a very large scale, as I have held in earlier paragraph that both the parties have not approached with clean hands. Asad Naveed alias Dangar had already been awarded maximum sentence under section 302(c), P.P.C. So I cannot sentence him to undergo death as held me in the earlier paragraph because no appeal against his acquittal under section 302(a) or (b), P.P.C. Has been filed by the State or the for the complainant, so conviction and sentence recorded against Asad Naveed alias Dangar appellant by the learned trial Court is maintained."

3. In our view, it is a fit case for reappraisal of evidence, A therefore, leave is granted in both the cases.

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