' MAHBUB ALI KHAN, C.J.--- Accused Nauroz Khan has been arrested in a case registered under sections 302, 324, 34, P.P.C. And could not get his release on bail from the forums below. Hence this petition.
2. We have heard Mr. Haroon Adnan Orakzai, Advocate on behalf of the accused-petitioner and A.A.-G. Khawaja Azhar Rashid for State. None is present for the complainant party despite notice.
The accused is not only named in the F.I.R. Registered at Police Station Akora Khattak on 24-2-1993 for effective firing on the deceased, but he absconded from the spot after the occurrence and lived in exile for a period of more than four years when arrested by the police in the case in the year, 1997. He is directly charged for firing at the deceased in the F.I.R. Along with the co-accused. The medical evidence indicated six inlet fire-arm wounds with corresponding exit injuries on the dead body caused by different bore weapons. Two empties of 7.62 bore were also recovered from the spot by the Investigating Officer. All this shows that number of the accused mentioned in the F.I.R. Is not exaggerated.
3. Additionally, the learned counsel could not explain long period of ascendance of the accused despite proceedings taken against him under sections 87, 88, Cr.P.C. Read with sections 204 and 512, Cr.P.C. He was arrested in the case after the co-accused, namely, Karamat Khan was released on bail by this Court on 14-11-1997. From all this material placed on record there appear to us reasonable grounds for believing that the accused-petitioner has been guilty of an offence punishable with death or imprisonment for life and may not be released on bail. We have been told that challah in the case has been put in Court. The learned Court is directed to speed up disposal of the case being that of the year, 1993.