1. Rashid Aziz Khan, J.- A case under sections 436/307 PPC stands registered against the petitioner with Police Station Mustafabad, Lahore vide FIR dated 6-10-1988. According to the allegations levelled in the FIR registered at the instance of Mst. Salma SuItana, are that she was sleeping in her room. On sensing fire and feeling hot she woke up and saw that the room had caught fire. She at once came out and started shouting for help whereupon her sister and grand-mother as well as her neighbours came there and put off the fire. In the meanwhile, the witnesses saw that the petitioner was running away from the roof of her house.
2. It is contended by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner is a minor. Submits that there is no evidence whatsoever to connect the petitioner with the commission of the offence.
3. Contends that the injuries received by the first information are superficial in nature which entitles the petitioner to the concession of bail and the challan in the case has not yet been submitted.
4. Learned counsel for the State has opposed the contentions of learned counsel for the petitioner.
2. I have heard learned counsel and perused the record. The occurrence took place at 2.45 at night on 6-10-1988. The first informant as well as the witnesses saw the petitioner running away from the house of the first informant. No explanation has been given by learned counsel for the petitioner as to what he was doing at that dark hours of the night in the house of the first informant. According to the School Leaving Certificate the age of the petitioner is more than I6 years. I am informed that the challan in the case has already been submitted in Court and the case is ripe for trial. The contentions of learned counsel that there are only superficial injuries on the person of the first informant are without force because the injuries have been caused by burning.
5. Since the challan has already been submitted in Court and the case is ripe for trial, therefore, I feel that it is not a fit case for grant of bail. ResuItantly, the petition fails which is accordingly dismissed.