Eliminating Perjury
Justice is dependant upon the evidence brought before those dispensing justice. If the evidence is manipulated in any manner, the verdict given will be flawed. It stands to reason that for justice to be done, it is imperative to ensure the credibility of evidence. A witness deliberately making material false or misleading statement while under oath commits the offence of perjury. Not only in Pakistan, or in South Asia, but throughout the world, less so in the first world than in the third, perjury is regularly committed by those giving statements under oath. In the first world, serious notice is taken of perjury, and many are convicted and punished for it. One really wonders as to the record of such convictions in third world countries – presumably it would be abysmally low.
