Fact

If a person alleges a fact which is especially within his knowledge, the burden of proving that fact is upon that person.

Party that alleges a particular fact is bound to prove the same.

When a party alleges a specific factual point then that party is bound to prove the same by supporting evidence.

Such rule like other rules is not without exceptions and one such exception is envisaged by Arts.59 to 65 Qanun-e-Shahadat, 1984, which accepts even some `opinions' as evidence

Such opinions have to be of persons who are `Experts' in relevant fields and are admissible only if they pertained to foreign law or to science or art or as to identity of hand-writing or finger impressions or about existence of any general custom or right or about usages and tenets of anybody of men or family or about any religious or charitable foundation or about meanings of words or terms used in Particular districts or by particular classes of people

Investigating Officer cannot be accepted as an expert nor investigation, which is conductable even by an ordinary private person, can qualify as science or even as art

Even under the law, opinion of Investigating Officer is not admissible as evidence

Neither Criminal Procedure Code, 1898, authorizes or allow Investigating Officer to form opinions about guilt or innocence of accused person which is a purely judicial function performable only by a court of law nor Qanun-e-Shahadat, 1984, recognizes opinions of investigating officers as admissible in evidence.

Facts given in newspapers having not been denied, would be considered as undisputed facts.

Disputed facts-Assessment of disputed facts to be made objectively which is only proper course without prejudice to legal limitations.