1. SALAHUDDIN AHMED, J.-The petitioner vas been aggrieved by at; order of a learned Singe Judge of the Lahore High Court releasing the three accused-respondents on bail in a case registered against them on the 4th of Jane 1974, under section 302/147/148/149 of the Pakistan Penal Code.
2. It appears that the occurrence took place at the well of respondent Ali Ahmad and the accused persons took up a plea of right of private defence and alleged that some of them, too, had been injured as a result of the incident They also lodged a complaint against the complainant party of the present case.
3. Eventually a challan was submitted against persons including the said three respondents, and thereupon commitment proceedings started against them. Several witnesses have already been examined in the proceedings. The recent amendment in the low has cut short the proceedings and the accused now await trial in the Sessions Court.
4. Of the 8 accused persons all except the three respondents had been released on bail earlier by the High Court. Subsequently respondents Murid Hussain and Niaz Hussain applied for bail before the High Court but were refused by Javed Iqbal, J, of the High Court. Still later all the three respondents applied for bail and the same learned Single Judge of the High Court granted them bail on the ground that there was "prima facie probability that the counter version has also some truth in it'', and that in the counter-case process had been served on the complainant party. Furthermore that some of the accused had received injuries including a grievous injury on the head of one of them.
5. On behalf of the petitioner it has been contended that the respondents should never have been granted bail as they were mentioned in the first information report and overt acts were attributed to them including the allegation that respondent Ali Ahmad had struck on the head of the deceased with a seta.
6. In the facts and circumstances of the case we do not think this is a fit case to interfere with the impugned order of the High Court. The petition is accordingly dismissed.
7. However, if the accused-respondents or any of them misuse the privilege of bail the petitioner will be at liberty to approach the High Court for cancelling the bail.