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1994 SCMR 1211

MUHAMMAD TUFAIL and 2 others vs THE STATE

Citation1994 SCMR 1211
CourtSupreme Court of Pakistan
Case No.Criminal Petition for Leave to Appeal No,246/L of 1993 Criminal Revision
Judge(s)Muhammad Rafique Tarar, Muhammad Afzal Lone, Shafi-ur-Rehman
ResultLeave refused

' MUHAMMAD RAFIQ TARAR, J.---Muhammad Tufail and two others seek leave to appeal from the order of the learned Division Bench of the Lahore High Court dated 3-5-1993 whereby a week's time was allowed to the petitioners "to consider and consult among themselves for the payment of Rs,1,72,000 to Mian Khan" as Badl-e-Sulh.

2. The relevant facts are that a case under section 148/302/149 of thc P.P.C. Was registered against the petitioners and three others for the murder of Muhammad Nawaz. It was sent for trial to the Special Court No, IV-Lahore.

3. The prosecution had examined as many as 13 witnesses when Mian Khan, the complainant (father of the deceased), moved an application that in pursuance of a compromise he had forgiven the petitioners and their co-accused and had no objection to their acquittal. He, appearing as C.W.1 and his wife Mst. Hamida Bibi (mother of the deceased) as C.W.2 made similar statements in the Court whereupon the learned trial Judge acquitted the accused persons.

4. In the impugned order the learned Judges of the High Court observed that a probe into the facts of the case revealed that besides the parents, the deceased had also minor sisters and brothers, therefore, acquittal on the basis of compromise was unwarranted. They, therefore, passed the order referred to above.

5. The fact that the deceased had minor sisters and brothers has not been controverted before us.

It is rather admitted in ground IV(1) of the petition that the deceased had minor heirs. In that view of the matter and the fact that the impugned order is interlocutory one, we do not feel inclined to interfere. Leave to appeal is refused.

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