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1988 SCMR 486

AFTAB AHMAD KHAN VS STATE

Petitioner: AFTAB AHMAD KHAN VS Respondent: STATE

Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan

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1988 S C M R 486

1988 S C M R 486

Present: Aslam Riaz Hussain, Javid Iqbal and Saad Saood Jan, JJ

AFTAB AHMAD KHAN--Petitioner

versus

THE STATE--Respondent

Criminal Petition No.395 of 1987, decided on 16th January, 1988.

(On appeal from the order dated 21-12-1987 of the Lahore High Court, Lahore in Criminal Miscellaneous No.1174-B of 1987).

Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898)--

---S.497--Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss.302, 307 & 324 read with Ss.148 & 149-Bail--Petitioner one of persons, to whom fatal blow caused to deceased, had been attributed--No principle of law found to have been violated by High Court in rejecting petitioner's prayer for grant of bail--Petition dismissed.

Rana Abdur Rahim Khan, Advocate Supreme Court and Tanvir Ahmad, Advocate- on-Record for Petitioner.

Nemo for the State.

Date of hearing: 16th January, 1988.

ORDER

SAAD SAOOD JAN, J.--This is a petition for special leave to appeal from the order dated 21-12-1987 of the Lahore High Court, Multan Bench, whereby the petitioner's application for bail was rejected.

2. The petitioner was involved in a case registered under sections 302, 307 and 324, read with sections 149 and 148 of the Pakistan Penal Code. He is one of the persons to whom the fatal blow caused A to the deceased has been attributed.

3. After hearing the learned counsel for the petitioner we do not find that in rejecting the petitioner's prayer the High Court has violated any principle of law. The petition is dismissed.

S. Q./A-159/S Petition dismissed.

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