MUMTAZ AHMAD vs MANSUR HASAN KHAN, SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT — 1971 PLD 530

Citation: 1971 PLD 530

Court: Lahore High Court

Year: 1970

Decision Date: 1970-12-31

Parties: MUMTAZ AHMAD vs MANSUR HASAN KHAN, SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT JUDGMENT

Headnotes

Case cited as PLD 1971 Lahore 530

Judgment Text

Court Name: Lahore High Court Judge(s): Shafi-ur-Rehman, Karam Elahi Chauhan Title:MUMTAZ AHMAD vs MANSUR HASAN KHAN, SECRETARY TO THE GOVERNMENT JUDGMENT Reported As: PLD 1971 Lahore 530 Result: Petition dismissed Judgment JUDGMENT K. E. CHAUHAN, J.--In a case registered vide F. I. R., No, 133 dated 31-8-1968 in a Police Station in Sargodha District under. sections 302/34, P. P. C., and referred to a Tribunal under the West Pakistan Criminal Law Amendment Act VII of 1963,. (hereinafter referred to as the Act), the President of the Tribunal granted bail to Mumtaz Ahmad petitioner under subsection (11) of section 28-D or the Act on 20-2-1970. Against that order, the complainant filed an appeal before the Commissioner, Sargodha, :Division who rejected it on 14-4-1970. The complainant then filed a revision before the Provincial Government which was accepted by the Home Secretary Government of Punjab on 1-9- 1970,. ;whereby he cancelled the petitioner's bail. The petitioner has come up to this Court under Article 98 of the late Constitution contending that the Provincial Government/Home Secretary had no jurisdiction to hear the revision or cancel the bail and, there-'fore, his order is without lawful authority and be so declared. We have examined this point in detail and are of the opinion, as will be presently shown, that it has no merit. 2. Against an order passed under subsection (11) of section 28-D of the Act, a revision petition is maintainable under subsection (12) of…

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