Recovery of Crime Weapon. (Principles)Recovery of Weapon From accused in the Eyes of Law.

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Recovery of the weapon from the accused was legally inconsequential to
connect him with the crime, as there was a negative report regarding the
matching of the stated recovered crime empty from the spot.
(2019 SCMR 1068)
 Although the casings/empties tallied with the weapon, however, these were
dispatched on a date subsequent to arrest of accused and thus such piece of
evidence lost its significance. (2019 SCMR 1156)
 Dispatch of casing/crime empty for forensic analysis, a day before accused's
arrest was a suspect circumstance. (2019 SCMR 1327)
 According to the investigating officer it was a double storied house
and recovery was effected from the ground floor where other family
members also resided-Memorandum of recovery showed that the pistol was
recovered from an open room lying under rough clothes, therefore, it would
be unsafe to rely on such recovery for a conviction on a capital charge.
(2019 SCMR 956)
 Recovery of weapon at the instance of the accused was inconsequential as no
report of Forensic Science Laboratory qua the said weapon was available on
record. (2017 SCMR 2041)
 Alleged recovery of knife from accused as well as the positive reports of
Chemical Examiner and Serologist were inconsequential because
said recovery was effected after more than one year and three months of the
occurrence. (2017 SCMR 1976)
 Human prudence would not accept that the accused, after committing
murder with a dagger, would choose to preserve it in his own shop rather
(26)
than throwing it away in any field, water canal, well or other place. (201