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MUHAMMAD IQBAL versus THE STATE

Pakistan Penal Code Section 302/449 definition of evidence The accused was accused of killing three times, his wife and two others who allegedly had illicit relations with his deceased wife. That he had killed. The man, when he saw two male suspects in his house with his wife, the prosecutor's story was that the accused had killed three dead men at different places in the same succession which led to his abducted wife. Two men made eye-witnesses with the victim on suspicion of illicit relations. The defendant's plea denied that it was a sudden incident and that he supported the prosecutor's story. Medical evidence also provided strong support to the eyewitness account, the defendant did not present any evidence to support his case that two men were killed by the victim. The accused, along with his wife in his house, did not plead for grave and sudden provocation with the police and at no stage during the interrogation did he make any attempt to record his version and During the trial, he first presented his version in light of the prosecutor's proposed motive. The accused, in the circumstances, failed to prove serious and sudden provocation and it was proved that the incident was presented as a cause of envy and revenge even though the accused involved in the case included family honor, There was no justification for killing him. On the basis of suspicion of the three victims, the incident related to the murder of the wife of the accused was unseen and it came to the knowledge of the neighbors when he was accused in his house. list of advocates from Laliah lawyer