Mian FAZAL AHMAD vs THE STATE — 1970 PLD 726

Citation: 1970 PLD 726

Court: Lahore High Court

Year: 1970

Decision Date: 1970-01-19

Parties: Mian FAZAL AHMAD vs THE STATE

Headnotes

Case cited as PLD 1970 Lahore 726

Judgment Text

Court Name: Lahore High Court Judge(s): Shoukat Ali Title: Mian FAZAL AHMAD vs THE STATE Case No.: Criminal Miscellaneous No. 138 of 1970 Date of Judgment:1970-01-19 Reported As: PLD 1970 Lahore 726 Result: Orders accordingly Judgment ORDER This is a petition under section 561-A, of the Code of Criminal Procedure read with clause 22 of the Letters Patent, praying this Court that the allegations disclose no offence under -section 167, items 8 and 9 of the Sea Customs Act, or in the alternative to transfer the investigation of the case to some other .Impartial police agency. 2. The facts gathered from the application, briefly stated, are these. The petitioner, Mian Fazal Ahmad of Baghbanpura, Lahore, happened to be the former owner of Jeep No. LED-253, from which the local Cantonment Police had seized contraband during the course of investigation of road accident in which the -jeep had been involved. It is stated in the petition that actually the petitioner had sold the jeep in question to one Mazhar A.I -son of Aziz-ud-Din, Director Sartaj Engineering Company Limited, Gulberg, Lahore, on the 13th of November 1967, and while handing over the jeep to Mazhar A.I, he had executed a receipt for a sum of Rs. 7,500, which he had received from him and a written authority to enable him to get the jeep transferred in his name from the Registering authority (Vehicles), Lahore. Mazhar A.I, it is alleged, sold the jeep to one Ijaz Ahmad on the 16th of July 1969, and while handing over…

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