' Petitioner seeks bail in a case registered at Police Station, Misri Shah, Lahore, on 5th April, 1986, under section 302/34, P.P.C.
2. The occurrence is stated to have taken place on 4th December, 1985. F.I.R. Has been recorded on the basis of a disclosure said to have been made by the petitioner before Muhammad Saleem Beg, S.I. While in custody in another case. Nothing was recovered in consequence 4' the disclosure made by the petitioner.
3. Apart from the facts given in the F.I.R. Which, as noted above, contains, the disclosures said to, have been made by the petitioner, the only evidence collected during investigation, according to learned counsel for the State, is, that Sarwar and Ilyas, the two co-accused of A the petitioner, are said to have made extra-judicial confessions on 25th February, 1986, before Booti and Amar Nath, implicating the petitioner as well. Even according to the confessional statements, the only injury said to have been inflicted to the deceased was caused by Sarwar.
4. It may be of interest to note here that regarding this very occurrence an F.I.R. Was also recorded at Police Station City, Sialkot, on 8th December, 1985, on the statement of Nand Lal, a brother of Babu Lal deceased, and in that, it has been stated that some unknown persons had brought his brother Babu Lal in an injured condition to his house on a Suzuki Wagon on 5th December, 1985 and before leaving they had informed Manzur Hussain and Allah Wasaya, his co-villagers, that Babu Lal had suffered bullet injury during some dispute in the cinema.
5. The facts noted above, which have been admitted by the learned counsel for the State as well, do not make out reasonable grounds to believe that the petitioner had committed the murder. He is, therefore, directed to be released on bail, on his furnishing a bail bond to the sum of Rs,20,000, with two sureties each in the like amount, to the satisfaction of Assistant Commissioner (City), Lahore.