Medical evidence can only furnish details

17. Dr. Afshan Akram (PW-1) provided medical evidence in the instant case. On 12.11.2004, she conducted autopsy on two unknown women at the DHQ Hospital, Sahiwal, whose dead bodies were brought by Muhammad Aslam 688/C (PW-5). One of them was aged about 35 years while the other was 45 years old. She noted four 1 cm x 1 cm x deep firearm injuries (with corresponding exit wounds) on the first woman and two similar injuries (with corresponding exit wounds) on the other. The prosecution heavily relies on her evidence to seek corroboration of its case. I am afraid, it is of no avail to it because in the instant case the identity of the culprit(s) could not be established. It is trite that medical evidence can only furnish details of the injuries sustained by a person, living or dead, and the kind of weapons used in the occurrence but it cannot identify the culprits. Reliance is placed on Akbar Ali v. The State (2007 SCMR 486), Rahimullah Jan v. Kashif and another (PLD 2008 SC 298), Altaf Hussain v. Fakhar Hussain and another (2008 SCMR 1103), Muhammad Tasaweer v. Hafiz Zulkarnain and 2 others (PLD 2009 SC 53), Haji Paio Khan v. Sher Biaz and others (2009 SCMR 803), Muhammad Aslam v. Sabir Hussain and others (2009 SCMR 985), and Mursal Kazmi alias Qamar Shah and another v. The State (2009 SCMR 1410). 

Part Of Judgment
THE LAHORE HIGH COURT, MULTAN BENCH, MULTAN 
Criminal Appeal
13-09
2018 LHC 3164