9c acquittal | Acquittal in drug case. The Supreme Court acquitted the accused in the drug case. The prosecution could not prove the safe delivery of the samples. The samples were sent to the laboratory late. And the sender who was responsible for sending the drug sample to the laboratory was not served. His statement was necessary to prove how and when the samples were transported to the laboratory and whether all the preservation steps were followed or not. 2024 S C M R 1408




Acquittal in drug case.
The Supreme Court acquitted the accused in the drug case. The prosecution could not prove the safe delivery of the samples. The samples were sent to the laboratory late.
And the sender who was responsible for sending the drug sample to the laboratory was not served. His statement was necessary to prove how and when the samples were transported to the laboratory and whether all the preservation steps were followed or not.
2024 S C M R 1408

مندرجہ بالا کیس میں عدالت عظمیٰ نے واضح کیا کہ انسداد منشیات کے مقدمات میں ملزم کی جانب سے حاصل ہونے والے نمونے، ان کی حفاظت، اور انہیں بروقت لیبارٹری بھیجنے کے مراحل کو ثابت کرنا استغاثہ کی ذمہ داری ہے۔ اگر اس سلسلے میں کسی بھی مرحلے میں کمی پائی جائے، تو اس کا فائدہ ملزم کو دیا جائے گا۔ اس کیس میں پولیس کے شواہد سے ظاہر ہوتا ہے کہ چرس کے نمونوں کو لیبارٹری بھیجنے میں تاخیر ہوئی اور متعلقہ ذمہ دار افسر کا بیان بھی پیش نہیں کیا گیا۔ مزید برآں، پولیس ریکارڈ میں تاریخ کا اندراج نہ ہونا بھی اس معاملے میں شک پیدا کرتا ہے۔ ان تمام نقائص کی بناء پر عدالت نے ملزمان کی سزا کو کالعدم قرار دیتے ہوئے انہیں بری کر دیا۔
2024 S C M R 1408

[Supreme Court of Pakistan]

Present: Jamal Khan Mandokhail, Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi and

Naeem Akhtar Afghan, JJ

ASIF ALI and another---Petitioner

Versus

The STATE through Prosecutor General Punjab---Respondent

Criminal Petition No. 1602 of 2023, decided on 31st May, 2024.

            (On appeal against the judgment dated 29.11.2023 of the Lahore High Court, Rawalpindi Bench passed in Crl.A. No. 159 of 2023).

(a) Control of Narcotic Substances Act (XXV of 1997)---

----S. 9---Possession  of narcotic---Safe custody and transmission of samples---Significance---In the cases under Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997, it is the duty of the prosecution to establish each and every step from the stage of recovery, making of sample parcels, safe custody of sample parcels and safe transmission of the sample parcels to the concerned laboratory---This chain has to be established by the prosecution and if any link is missing, the benefit of the same has to be extended to the accused---Prosecution is under a bounded responsibility to drive home the charge against an accused by proving each limb of its case that essentially includes production of the witness tasked with the responsibility of transmitting the samples to the office of Chemical Examiner and failure to do the same can cast away the entire prosecution case.

       Javed Iqbal v. The State 2023 SCMR 139; Mst. Sakina Ramzan v. The State 2021 SCMR 451; Qaiser Khan v. The State 2021 SCMR 363; Abdul Ghafoor v. The State 2022 SCMR 819; Muhammad Shoaib v. The State 2022 SCMR 1006; Khair ul Bashar v. The State 2019 SCMR 930; The State v. Imran Bakhsh 2018 SCMR 2039; Taimoor Khan v. The State 2016 SCMR 621; Ikram Ullah v. The State 2015 SCMR 1002 and Amjad Ali v. The State 2012 SCMR 577 ref.

(b) Control of Narcotic Substances Act (XXV of 1997)---

----S. 9(c)---Control of Narcotic Substances (Government Analysts) Rules 2001, R. 4(2)---Police Rules, 1934, R. 22.70---Possession and transportation of charas---Reappraisal of evidence---Safe custody and transmission of the samples to the Forensic Laboratory not established---In the instant case, statements of a Head Constable and Investigating Officer revealed that the seven sample parcels of the charas allegedly recovered on 27.05.2021 were handed over to a Sub-Inspector for transmission to office of the lab on 31.05.2021 i.e. much beyond the seventy two hours of the seizure in violation of Rule 4(2) of the Control of Narcotic Substances (Government Analysts) Rules 2001 ('Rules of 2001') for which no plausible explanation had been offered by the prosecution---According to statement of the Head Constable, he handed over the seven sample parcels to the Sub-Inspector for onward transmission to office of the Lab on 31.05.2021---In order to prove safe transmission of the sample parcels to office of the Lab, the prosecution had not produced said Sub-Inspector before the Trial Court for recording his statement and in this regard no explanation had been offered by the prosecution---During his cross-examination, Head Constable was confronted by the defence counsel with Form 22.70 of Register No.XIX maintained as per Rule 22.70 of the Police Rules, 1934 wherein admittedly no date, month and year had been mentioned in the relevant column No.3 pertaining to the case property/sample parcels of the instant case and in this regard as well no explanation had been offered by the Head Constable or by the Investigating Officer---Prosecution had failed to prove the charge against the petitioners beyond reasonable doubt---Conviction and sentence awarded to the petitioners by the Trial Court and maintained by the Appellate Court was result of misreading and mis-appreciation of the evidence  available on record---Petition was converted into an appeal and was allowed, the judgments of the Trial Court and the High Court respectively were set aside, and the appellants were acquitted of the charge.

       Muhammad Nawaz Khan, Advocate Supreme Court for Petitioners.

       Irfan Zia, A.P.G., Punjab for the State.

 


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