1976 PLP 193 (SCMR)
KHURSHID AHMAD‑Petitioner Versus THE STATE‑Respondent
| Citation | 1976 PLP 193 (SCMR) |
| Forum / Court | High Court |
| Bench Members | N/A |
| Parties | KHURSHID AHMAD‑Petitioner Versus THE STATE‑Respondent |
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Representation
- Raja Muhammad Anwar, Senior Advocate Supreme Court instructed by Mahmood A. Qureshi, Advocate‑on‑Record for Petitioner.
- Date of hearing : 21st November 1975.
Headnotes / Summary
(On appeal from the judgment and order of the Lahore High Court, dated the 29th of May 1875, to ‑Criminal Appeal No. 817 of 1967). Penal Code (XLV of 1860)‑‑ ‑‑ S. 307‑Murder, attempt to‑Convict petitioner 65 years old, a collateral of injured person, and living in same village‑Petitioner having gunshot wounds on his wrist‑Counter‑cases between parties ending in dismissal of one and conviction in another‑Parties com promising matter in order to prevent further bitterness‑Held; Desirable in interests of peace and good relations between parties to reduce sentence to period already undergone. Nemo for the State.
Judgment & Decree
SALAHUDDIN AHMED, J. ‑The petitioner has been aggrieved by an order of the High Court maintaining his conviction and sentence under sentence under section 307 of the Pakistan Penal Code. The petitioner was sentenced to suffer six years' rigorous imprisonment and to pay a fine of Rs.
500. We are told that the fine had paid and that the petitioner has already served his sentence for about seven months. The petitioner is a collateral of the injured person and lives in the same village. He is 0 years old, and appears to have had a bullet injury on his wrist. According, to the doctor there was a gunshot wound of entrance on the outer side of the left wrist of the petitioner which was communicating with another wound on the outer side of left thumb. A bullet was taken out from this wound. The medical evidence disclosed that the complainant was shot at from a sufficient distance, There was a counter case by the petitioner against complainant Muhammad Khan the latter was acquitted. The parties have submitted an application before this Court stating that they have compromised the matter in order to prevent further bitterns between the relations. On behalf of the petitioner, therefore, this petition has been pressed on the ground of sentence only. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case we think it desirable in the interest of peace and good relations between the parties that we should reduce the sentence to the period already undergone by the petitioner. We accordingly convert this petition into an appeal and allow it and reduce the sentence of six years' rigorous imprisonment passed upon the appellant to the period already undergone by him, and direct that he be released forthwith if neat required in connection with any other matter. Sentence reduced.