SC adjourns rape appeal after three DNA and disability queries
A two-judge bench in Islamabad asked counsel for more help on Supreme Court DNA evidence rules, the survivor's mental capacity, and why no expert interpreted her trial testimony.
Two Supreme Court judges adjourned an Islamabad rape appeal while seeking fuller submissions on three legal points.
One point is whether a guilty verdict may rest only on DNA laboratory findings.
The high court had imposed life imprisonment citing a DNA match and describing the survivor as mentally disabled.
Defence counsel said the 25-year-old never spoke in the trial court; her mother testified instead.
Prosecution counsel said the child's DNA matched the accused, identified as her neighbour and maternal uncle.