IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PAKISTAN 
(Appellate Jurisdiction) 
 
PRESENT:  
Mr. Justice Manzoor Ahmad Malik 
Mr. Justice Sardar Tariq Masood 
Mr. Justice Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed 
 
Jail Petition No.521 of 2017 
(Against the judgment dated 16.5.2017 
passed by the Lahore High Court, 
Rawalpindi Bench in Criminal Appeal 
No.799 of 2016). 
 
Muhammad Kamran 
…Petitioner(s) 
 
VERSUS 
 
The State   
…Respondent(s) 
 
 
For the Petitioner(s) 
: Malik Altaf Hussain, ASC 
 
 
 
For the State 
: Mirza Abid Majeed, DPG 
 
 
 
Date of Hearing 
: 11.06.2019. 
 
 
JUDGMENT 
 
 
 
Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed, J.- Surprised by a 
police contingent, the petitioner was found in possession of 
Charas Garda, weighing 1200-grams within the remit of Police 
Station Naseerabad Rawalpindi on 26-1-2016; upon conclusion 
of investigation, he was sent to face trial along with forensic 
report that confirmed the narcotic character of the substance; 
in the wake of a regular trial, he was returned a guilty verdict 
by a learned Additional Sessions Judge at Rawalpindi vide 
judgment dated 17-11-2016; convicted under Section 9 (c) of 
the Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997, he was 
sentenced to 4-years and 6-months RI along with fine of 
Rs.20,000/- or to suffer 2-months SI in default thereof with 
benefit of section 382-B of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 
1898. Petitioner’s appeal in the High Court met with no better 
fate vide impugned judgment dated 16-5-2017 and this brings 
him to this Court.  
Jail Petition No.521 of 2017 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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2. 
 
Learned counsel for the petitioner 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. An 
alleged discrepancy in the description of the contraband 
recovered, between the complaint and statements of the 
witnesses went unchallenged during the trial and as such the 
petitioner cannot claim any benefit thereof in the absence of 
confrontation within the contemplation of Article 140 of the 
Qanun-e-Shahadat Order, 1984. No case for interference is 
made out. Petition stands dismissed.    
 
 
 
JUDGE 
 
 
 
JUDGE 
 
 
 
Islamabad, the 
11th of June, 2019 
Azmat Ali/* 
JUDGE 
 
