Mohamed Naseem Mohamed Nazar alias Mohamed Haseen Mohamed Nazar alias Gowa Nazar Vs. The Hon. Attorney General – CA HCC 0145/2024-2025

The case between Mohamed Naseem Mohamed Nazar (Appellant) and the Attorney General, the court addressed the issue of the credibility and probability of prosecution witnesses’ evidence and the High Court Judge’s failure to provide reasons for rejecting the Appellant’s dock statement in a drug trafficking case. The court held that the conviction and sentence imposed by the High Court were to be set aside, and the Appellant acquitted, reaffirming the principle that significant contradictions in prosecution evidence create reasonable doubt and that dock statements must be considered in their correct perspective. This decision relied on Sections 54(A)(d) and 54(A)(b) of the Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance, and precedents such as ‘Mohamed Nimnaz V. Attorney General’, ‘Don Samantha J