MUHAMMAD AKHTAR vs THE STATE AND 2 OTHERSs — 1971 PCRLJ 1081

Citation: 1971 PCRLJ 1081

Court: Lahore High Court

Year: 1970

Decision Date: 1970-12-31

Parties: MUHAMMAD AKHTAR vs THE STATE AND 2 OTHERSs

Headnotes

Case cited as 1971 PCRLJ 1081

Judgment Text

Court Name: Lahore High Court Judge(s): Muhammad Munir Farooqi Title: MUHAMMAD AKHTAR vs THE STATE AND 2 OTHERSs Case No.: Criminal Revision No. 82 of 1970 Date of Judgment:- Reported As: 1971 P Cr. L J 1081 Result: Petition dismissed JUDGMENT JUDGMENT This is a petition under section 435/439, Cr. P. C. For the revision of an order passed by Raja M. Ayub, Corporation Magistrate, Lahore, on the 10th of January 1970, summoning Mr. Tayyab Siddiqi, Advocate, and six others as Court witnesses under section 540 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in a case under section 307/34, P. P. C. Pending against respondents Nos. 2 and 3 in his Court. 2. The prosecution case, in brief, is that Mst. Munawar Sultana, a sister of the petitioner Muhammad Akhtar, on account of maltreatment of her husband Mukhtar Hussain Shah, respon--dent No. 2, was living with her parents on the eventful evening when one of her sons was found missing and the petitioner and his brother Humayun Akhtar went to enquire about him from the house of respondent No. 2 who resented it and is said to have come down with his nephew Zulfiqar Ali respondent No. 3 and i.e the course of the altercation that ensued between them in the "lane fired a shot from his revolver on the exhortation of respon--dent No. 3, which hit Humayun Akhtar P. W., in the abdomen. In the meanwhile Zaman Abbas, then posted as A. S. I. At Police Station Shahdara, a relative of respondent No. 2, had also appeared on the scene and catching hold of…

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