' TARIQ SHAMIM, J.---Seeks quashment of F.I.R. No,613, dated 29-8-2006 for offences under sections 420, 468 and 471, P.P.C. Registered at Police Station Saddar Jhang inter alia on the grounds that the provisions of section 420, P.P.C. Are not attracted to the case of the petitioners whereas the offences under sections 468/471, P.P.C. Are non-cognizable offences, that the allegation against the petitioners is regarding forgery of Nikahnama which can only be determined by the Family Court; that in the application filed by the complainant before the learned Addl. Sessions Judge, petitioner No,4 was not even arrayed as an accused; that petitioner No,1 has filed a suit for restitution of conjugal rights which is pending before the learned Judge Family Court and that the case against the petitioners was false and fabricated, hence the same was liable to be quashed.
2. The allegations leveled in the impugned F.I.R. Are denied by the petitioners, which belong to the realm of a factual controversy requiring holding of an inquiry into disputed questions of fact. Such exercise cannot be undertaken by this Court in proceedings under Article 199 of the Constitution.
The impugned F.I.R. Was lodged on A 29-8-2006 thus still at investigation stage. The police is under a legal obligation to investigate a crime reported to it and interfering in the statutory duty of the police at this early stage would amount to stifling the prosecution. Further, the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of Col.Shah Sadiq v. Muhammad Ashiq and others (2006 SCM R 276) has held that quashment of F.I.R. Would amount to short circuiting the normal procedure of law as provided under Cr.P.C. And Police Rules and that the accused have more than one alternate remedies available under the Cr.P.C.
3. No occasion has, thus, been found for interference in the matter by this Court. The petition is, therefore, dismissed in limine.