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Petitioner: ZAFAR IQBAL ANJUM VS Respondent: THE STATE
Court Name: Lahore High Court Judge(s): Sayed Sakhi Hussain Bokhari Title: ZAFAR IQBAL ANJUM vs THE STATE Case No.: Criminal Revision No,54 of 2002 Date of Judgment:2002-05-29 Reported As: 2003 MLD 1178 Result: Order accordingly
Judgment ORDER ' Zafar Iqbal Anjum petitioner stood surety for one Saeed Iqbal accused in case F.I.R. No,63 of 2000 registered at Police Station Bhung who had been granted bail. However the said Saeed Iqbal absented himself during pendency of bail application, therefore, his said application was dismissed and proceedings under section 514, Cr.P.C. Were initiated against the petitioner as a consequence whereof penalty of Rs,40,000 was imposed upon the petitioner, vide order dated 27- 6-2001 passed by Additional Sessions Judge, Sadiqabad. Hence this petition. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner, after submitting that the petitioner had gone abroad and, therefore, could not appear before the learned trial Court and did not know about the absence of Saeed Iqbal accused, submits that he does not want to press this petition and prays that the amount of penalty may be reduced. 3. This petition is dismissed. However, since the petitioner had admittedly gone abroad and was not available in Pakistan when proceedings against him had been initiated under section 514, Cr.P.C. And also that the compromise had been effected between the main accused i,e, Saeed Iqbal and the complainant, therefore, in the peculiar circumstances of this case, the amount of penalty is reduced to Rs,10, 000 (Rupees Ten Thousand).
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