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1990 SCMR 611

OMER HAYAT vs SHAHADAT KHAN and others

Citation1990 SCMR 611
CourtSupreme Court of Pakistan
Case No.Criminal Petition No,218 of 1989 C
Date1989-11-01
Judge(s)Naimuddin, Ali Hussain Qazilbash, Muhammad Haleem, Shafi-ur-Rehman,
ResultLeave refused

ORDER

' SAAD SAOOD JAN, J.---Shaukat Khan and Muhammad Khan, respondents, were arrested in a case registered at Police Station Khanqah Dogaran under sections 302 and 307, read with section 149, and section 148 of the Pakistan Penal Code. The allegations against them were that on 24-6-1988, at 4-30 p.m., they together with 7 other persons formed an unlawful assembly and in prosecution of the common object of the said assembly they armed themselves with shot guns and caused the death of one Khizar Hayat. They applied for bail before the High Court. A learned Single Judge found that during the course of investigation they had been found innocent by an officer of the rank of Deputy Superintendent of Police and in the challan submitted to the Court they had been placed in column No,2. The learned Judge thought that though the opinion of the police was not binding on the Court yet it was a relevant consideration in the matter of hail. Accordingly, he released them on bail. The petitioner, who had lodged the first information report, seeks leave to appeal from the order of the High Court.

2. In support of this petition it is stated that since the High Court enlarged the respondents on bail the matter has been reinvestigated by an officer deputed by the Inspector-General of Police and as a result of the re-investigation the respondents have been found to have taken part in the occurrence; accordingly a supplementary challan has been submitted in the Court wherein both the respondents have been shown as accused persons.

3. It will be noticed that the material upon which the petitioner seeks the cancellation of the bail granted to the respondents was not before the High Court when it made the impugned order. It is, therefore, not right for this Court to interfere with the said order. The petitioner may, if so advised, apply to the High Court for the cancellation of the bail earlier granted to the respondents on the basis of the new material. With these observations, the petition is dismissed.

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