IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PAKISTAN 
(Appellate Jurisdiction) 
 
PRESENT: 
Mr. Justice Manzoor Ahmed Malik 
Mr. Justice Sajjad Ali Shah 
Mr. Justice Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed 
 
Jail Petition Nos.480 & 594 of 2018 
 (Against judgment dated 2.5.2018 passed by High 
Court of Sindh, Circuit Court Larkana in Cr. Appeal 
 Nos.D-62 & D-63 of 2017) 
 
Abdul Wahab 
(in J.P. No.480 of 2018) 
Khan Muhammad 
(in J.P. No.594 of 2018) 
   
 
 
…Petitioner(s) 
 
 
 
 
 
Versus 
 
The State 
(in both cases) 
 
…Respondent(s) 
 
For the Petitioner(s): 
Mr. Siddique Baloch, ASC/AOR 
 
 
 
 
 
(in both cases) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
For the State: 
Mr. Khadim Hussain Khooharo,  
 
Additional Prosecutor General Sindh 
  
 
 
Date of hearing: 
17.10.2019. 
 
JUDGMENT  
 
 
      Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed, J. Jail Petition 
No.594 of 2018, filed by Khan Muhammad is barred by 35 days, 
however, since the petitioner is in receipt of a guilty verdict with 
corporal consequences, we consider it expedient to attend his 
plea on merit alongside Jail Petition No.480 of 2018 filed by his 
co-convict Abdul Wahab.  
2. 
 
The petitioners were surprised by a contingent of 
Police Station A-Section Thal, District Jacobabad, on patrol, and 
found in possession of Charas. According to the prosecution, 
Abdul Wahab was carrying 7.8 kilograms whereas Khan 
Muhammad 8.2 kilograms. Contraband was secured vide 
inventories. Separated samples were forensically examined with 
confirmatory results. Upon conclusion of trial, the petitioners 
were returned a guilty verdict by a learned Special Judge (CNSA) 
Jacobabad vide judgment dated 22-11-2017; convicted under 
Jail Petition Nos.480 & 594 of 2018 
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Section 9 (c) of the Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997, 
Abdul Wahab was sentenced to 10-years RI whereas Khan 
Muhammad to 11-years RI alongside fines and consequences in 
the event of default with benefit of section 382-B of the Code of 
Criminal Procedure, 1898; their appeals in the High Court met 
with no better fate vide impugned judgment dated 02-05-2018 
and this brings them to this Court.  
2. 
 
Heard. Record perused. 
3. 
 
Prosecution case is, primarily, structured upon 
statements of Izhar Ali Shah, ASI (PW-1), Muhammad Ayub  
(PW-2) and Abdul Haq, Inspector (PW-4); we have gone through 
their statements and found them in a comfortable unison, despite 
flux of time, on all the salient aspects of the prosecution case, in 
terms of interception of the petitioners and recovery of 
contraband, they are consistent, straightforward and confidence 
inspiring and their statements cannot be discarded merely on 
account of absence of a witness from the public; people seldom 
come forward to perform their civic responsibilities and official 
witnesses are no less credible or trustworthy provided their 
statements rang true, as is the case in hand.  Learned counsel for 
the petitioners, despite being at his best, has not been able to 
point out any serious flaw or infirmity that may be viewed as 
material or substantial in nature in the statements of the 
prosecution witnesses. Much stress laid by the learned counsel 
on a typographical error is not of much consequence, as the 
correct volume of contraband was put to the petitioners in the 
charge. Petitions fail. Dismissed.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Judge 
 
 
 
Judge 
 
 
Judge 
Islamabad  
17th October, 2019 
Azmat/- 
