' Today is the seventh hearing of this matter. The bail matter appears to have been adjourned from time to time either at the request of the learned counsel for the applicant or due to his absence.
2. Bail plea is pressed only on the ground of statutory delay in trial.
3. The prosecution story is that the Nikah ceremony of the applicant with his wife Mst. Lal Khatoon aged 13 years, the deceased in this case, ended about 7-00 a.m., when at about 8-00 a.m. a gun fire shot was heard from the bride's chamber and soon the bride was found lying dead with a fire- arm injury. This murder of the bride was owned by the applicant for the reason that the applicant found his bride not virgin at the eve and the time of coitus on the nuptial bed. The F.I.R. Was lodged by the deceased's brother Mir Khan.
4. The bail plea of the applicant has been rejected by the learned trial Court because the applicant appeared to be of dangerous and desperate nature.
5. Mr. Ali Azhar Tunio, A.A.-G., Sindh appearing for the State has vehemently opposed the grant of bail to the applicant on the ground that adjournment was sought by the applicant during his trial and secondly due to fear of the applicant the complainant and the P.Ws. Had shifted to an unknown place and they could be served only through publication in a newspaper for the purpose of recording of their evidence. He has stressed upon the desperate character of the applicant saying that the applicants case is hit by the last proviso to section 497(1), Cr.P.C.
6. The applicant by his conduct has displayed his dangerous and desperate nature. His case is, thus, hit by the last proviso to section 497(1), Cr.P.C. The applicant, therefore, is not entitled to bail even on the ground of statutory delay in the completion of trial.
7. Resultantly the Bail Application No,286 of 1999 stand dismissed.