Ehsan Elahi/petitioner seeks post-arrest bail in case F.I.R. No, 35/2007 dated 24.012007 registered with Police Station Garden Town, Lahore, under Section 395 PPC, at the instance of Barrister Khurram Raza/complainant.
2. As per contents of F.I.R., the complainant went to meet his friend and parked the car outside the house whereas the driver was sitting in the car. The complainant and his friend heard the hue and cry they immediately came out and saw that five persons are trying to snatch the keys of the car from his driver. One accused called the names of other co-accused, as Yasin and Sajid Shah. The accused on the call of other co-accused fired at the driver, overpowered him, threw him out of the car and forcibly snatched his mobile and took away the car also.
3. In support of this petition, learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is not named in the F.I.R., no identification parade has been conducted by the police, no supplementary statement of the complainant was recorded and the petitioner has been involved mala fide by the police to show its efficiency as the petitioner was also arrested in another F.I.R. No, 55/2007 and the joint recovery of car and mobile has been planted by the petitioner.
4. On the other hand, learned Deputy Prosecutor General has opposed the grant of bail and submits that the petitioner has committed a heinous offence, and thus he is not entitled to grant of bail.
5. After hearing the learned counsel for the parties, I find that Yasin, Sajid Shah and Ashraf have been named as accused in the FIR., but the present petitioner is not named in the F.I.R. amongst the culprits. There is delay of 24 hours in lodging the F.I.R. and no identification parade was held in this case. Co-accused Muhammad Naveed, from whom car and mobile were recovered, had already been allowed bail by this Court vide order dated 28.01.2008 passed in Crl. M. No, 7946-B/2007, whereas petitioner is in jail for the last about 13 months.
6. For what has been said above, this petition is allowed and the petitioner is admitted to bail subject to his furnishing bails bonds in the sum of Rs, 1,00,000/- with two sureties in the like amount to the satisfaction of learned Area Magistrate.