IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PAKISTAN 
(Appellate Jurisdiction) 
 
 
PRESENT: 
Mr. Justice Manzoor Ahmad Malik 
Mr. Justice Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed 
 
 
Jail Petition No.847 of 2018 
(Against judgment dated 15.11.2018 of the 
Lahore High Court Rawalpindi Bench 
passed in Crl. Appeal No.539/2017) 
 
 
Shazia Bibi 
  
 
…Petitioner(s) 
 
 
 
 
 
Versus 
 
The State  
 
…Respondent(s) 
 
For the Petitioner(s): 
Malik Jawwad Khalid, ASC 
  
  
For the State 
Mr. Muhammad Jaffar,  
 
Additional 
Prosecutor 
General, 
Punjab. 
  
 
 
Date of hearing: 
08.1.2020. 
 
JUDGMENT  
 
 
 
     Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed, J. Shazia Bibi, 
petitioner herein, was apprehended with 4-kilograms of cannabis 
during a random search on 28.12.2016 by a police contingent of 
Attock Khurd; she was on board a public vehicle hailing from 
Peshawar; forensic report established narcotic character of the 
contraband; upon conclusion of trial, convicted under Section 
9(c) of the Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997, she was 
sentenced to four years rigorous imprisonment with a direction to 
pay Rs.20,000/- as fine or to undergo four months simple 
imprisonment in lieu thereof, vide judgment dated 23.2.2017, 
upheld in appeal vide impugned judgment dated 15.11.2018, 
vires whereof, are being assailed on the grounds that she has 
been targeted as a scapegoat by the police to settle score with her 
husband, a driver by profession, on loggerheads with the police 
over illegal demands. It is next argued that the case was liable to 
be thrown out for prosecution’s failure to come up with complete 
details/protocol of forensic tests, carried out to establish the 
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nature of contraband allegedly recovered. Learned Law Officer 
faithfully defended the impugned judgment.  
2. 
 
Heard. Record perused. 
3. 
 
Quantity recovered, rather substantial in volume/ 
weight, cannot be possibly foisted upon a female to victimize her 
husband, himself a most suitable target, if at all the police had 
an axe to grind. All the prosecution witnesses including those of 
recovery have been found by us well within tune with one 
another; soon after her arrest, with the assistance of a female 
staffer, she was produced before a Magistrate who remitted her 
into judicial custody, a most opportune occasion to raise protest; 
her silence goes a long way to rebut the belatedly related story 
that otherwise may not find a buyer. Argument that the forensic 
report sans protocol is beside the mark as well inasmuch as tests 
carried out by the analyst are vividly mentioned therein, 
reproduced for the convenience of reference:- 
“Test Performed on Received Item(s) of Evidence 
 
1. Top load balance was used for weighing.  
2. Chemical Spot Tests 
were used for 
Presumptive Testing. 
3. Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry 
was used for confirmation. 
 
 
 
Results and Conclusions 
 
 
 
Item # 01   3982 gram(s) of dark brown 
resinous material in sealed parcel contains 
Charas.” 
 
Above details mentioned in the forensic report substantially/ 
sufficiently qualify to meet the statutory requirements. Findings 
concurrently arrived by the Courts below, being well within the 
remit of law, do not call for interference. Petition fails. Leave 
declined. 
  
 
Judge 
 
 
 
Judge 
Islamabad  
8th January, 2020 
Not approved for reporting 
Azmat/- 
