' TASSADUQ HUSSAIN JILLANI, J.---Petitioners seek bail in a case registered vide F.I.R. No, 151 of 2009 under sections 381/395, P.P.C. At Police Station Defence-B, Lahore wherein it is alleged by the complainant that three women marks of identity of whom were mentioned in the F.I.R. Came to their house to serve as domestic servants and after three days they left the house by committing theft of gold ornaments weighing 25 tolas and Defence Savings Certificates valuing Rs, 55,000.
None was named in the F.I.R. However, after almost seven months i,e, on 5-10-2009, he got recorded supplementary statement wherein he named the petitioners and two others as accused.
2. Learned counsel for the petitioners seeks bail on the ground that the petitioners are innocent; that there is no evidence to connect the petitioners with the alleged offence; that they are women and are behind the bars for the last more than six months.
3. Learned Additional Prosecutor-General opposed the petition by submitting that in the supplementary statement of petitioners were specifically named and during investigation, petitioners led to the recovery of a sum of Rs, 75,000 because the petitioners had already sold the gold ornaments.
4. We have heard learned counsel for the petitioners and for the State and have gone through the record with their assistance.
5. Admittedly none was named as accused in the F.I.R. And at no stage identification parade was held to connect the petitioners with the F.I.R. It is further not denied that none of the items mentioned in the F.I.R. Were recovered from the petitioners. It is further not denied by the learned Law Officer that the story given in the supplementary statement by the complainant at variance with the initial story given in the F.I.R. In the afore-referred circumstances the question of petitioners guilt would require further inquiry. Even otherwise petitioners are women. That being so, this petition is converted into appeal and allowed and subject to petitioners furnishing bail bonds in the sum of Rs,50,000 with one surety in the like amount, they shall be released on bail.