IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PAKISTAN 
(Appellate Jurisdiction) 
 
PRESENT: 
Mr. Justice Mr. Manzoor Ahmad Malik 
Mr. Justice Mazhar Alam Khan Miankhel 
Mr. Justice Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed 
 
 
 
Criminal Appeal No.125 of 2020 
(Against the judgment dated 8.11.2016 passed 
by the High Court of Sindh, Circuit Court, 
Larkana in Cr. Appeal No.D-3/2015)  
 
 
Mst. Sughran & Mst. Khalida 
 
 
 
…Appellant(s) 
 
 
 
 
 
Versus 
 
 
The State 
 
…Respondent(s) 
 
For the Appellant(s): 
Mr. M. Amjad Iqbal Qureshi, ASC 
 
For the State: 
Mr. Hussain Bux,  
 
Addl. Prosecutor General Sindh 
 
 
 
Date of hearing: 
27.10.2020. 
 
ORDER 
 
 
 
    Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed, J.- After strenuously 
highlighting “flaws” in various investigative steps, the learned counsel, 
nonetheless, does not press appellant’s conviction, concurrently held in 
order by the Courts below, albeit in reduction of sentence by the High 
Court and prays for further reduction of her sentence to the period 
already undergone with corresponding modification in the amount of 
fine.   
 
The appellant alongside co-accused Mst. Sughra was surprised in 
a public vehicle by an Excise contingent of Jacobabad Circle in the 
Province of Sindh with a cache of cannabis 10 k.g. each. Mst. Sughra 
co-convict has since been passed away. According to the report 
submitted by the jail authorities, the appellant, as on 23.10.2020, has 
served out a period well exceeding six years and is scheduled to be 
released on 18.12.2022.  
 
A considerable cache of contraband, nonetheless, attributed by 
the prosecution to the appellant, being not in excess of 10-kg, brings 
her case out of the barriers of statutory sealing of lowest mandated 
sentence and, thus, for reasons valid and just, her plea for reduction of 
sentence can be visited thoughtfully; her apparent status of a hapless 
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carrier has not seriously been controverted by the learned Law Officer 
who otherwise, nonetheless, faithfully defended the impugned 
judgment and opposed the reduction of sentence in view of the grace 
already shown by the High Court.  
  
The primary purpose behind the Criminal Justice System is to 
enable an offender to reform and rehabilitate him/herself to rejoin the 
mainstream life to once again become a useful member thereof. It is 
not to wreak vengeance. In the present case, we have not been able to 
find out any material/circumstance to view the appellant or her 
deceased partner as being privy at the helm of the consignment; 
abandoned by those who ensnared them into the trap, they struggled 
for their release on their own through jail petitions after a trial 
conducted without craft.  Substantial period already served out, death 
of identically placed inmate in the prison, are factors perhaps failing to 
individually qualify, nonetheless, taken into consideration together, 
cumulatively make out a case to reduce her sentence to the period 
already undergone. Reduction in fine to the tune of Rs.30000/- or to 
undergo three months SI in the event of default shall also be a 
conscionable arrangement. With the above modification, the appeal is 
partly allowed.   
  
 
Judge 
 
 
 
Judge 
 
 
 
Judge 
Islamabad, the 
27th October, 2020 
Not approved for reporting 
Azmat/- 
