Supreme Court acquitted murder accused after spending 21 years in jail
The Shariat Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan acquitted the murder accused after spending 21 years in jail. It cleared Imran alias Mani after he received the death penalty in a case involving double murder and adultery.
The Wazirabad Additional Sessions court sentenced Imran to seven years in prison and a death sentence in 2004. However, Imran filed an appeal against this verdict with the Supreme Court of Pakistan’s Shariat Appellate Bench in 2012.
Then, the bench accepted his plea for a regular hearing in 2018. The recent turning point came in this case when the Supreme Court acquitted murder-accused Imran due to shortcomings in the investigation procedure.
Following this, a five-member bench led by Chief Justice (CJ) Qazi Faez Isa overturned the previous verdict on the grounds of lack of evidence and the benefit of the doubt.
Judges Naeem Akhtar Afghan, Shahid Bilal Hassan, Dr. Muhammad Khalid Masood, and Dr. Qibla Ayyaz were also members of this bench.
CJ Qazi also questioned why police did not carry out appropriate evidence to gather. He criticized the police saying it expected to hang an accused man without providing sufficient evidence.
Afterward, the Supreme Court cleared the accused on grounds of the benefit of the doubt and insufficient evidence. The court passed this verdict after reviewing the record and hearing arguments.
Meanwhile, the same Shariat Appellate Bench reserved its verdict involving the accused husband’s acquittal in a Qazaf case. Qazaf refers to the act of making false accusations of adultery.
Aslam Khaki, the petitioner lawyer for Saeeda Begum, informed the court at the hearing that her daughter was born with her husband when he was in Saudi Arabia.
Upon his return, he refused to acknowledge their newborn girl. He insisted that he was not the biological father of a newborn.
As a result, Saeeda got divorced and filed a Qazf lawsuit in response to adultery accusations. Shariat Court sentenced the husband to two years imprisonment but the Supreme Court acquitted him.
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