Malik ZAKAUDDIN AND Another vs THE STATE — 1971 PCRLJ 152

Citation: 1971 PCRLJ 152

Court: Lahore High Court

Year: 1970

Decision Date: 1970-02-11

Parties: Malik ZAKAUDDIN AND Another vs THE STATE

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Case cited as 1971 PCRLJ 152

Judgment Text

Court Name: Lahore High Court Judge(s): Muhammad Munir Farooqi Title: Malik ZAKAUDDIN AND Another vs THE STATE Case No.: Criminal Miscellaneous No. 4610 of 1968 Date of Judgment:1970-02-11 Reported As: 1971 P Cr. L J 152 Result: Petition accepted JUDGMENT JUDGMENT A case under sections 3, 4 and 8 of the Suppression of Prostitution Ordinance, 11 of 1961 is pending against the to petitioners in the Court of A. D. M., Jhelum, and on the admission of the present petition under section 561-A of the Code of Criminal Procedure the proceedings were stayed by order of this Court on the 5th of September 1968. Petitioner No.1 is the husband of petitioner No 2 and both of them were accused of running a brothel in their house No. B/117, Gali Munshi Karam Din, Mohallah Shumali, Jhelum City. It was alleged that on some secret information Mumtaz Ali S: H. O. Raided the house of the petitioners on the 14th of May 1968, and found Capt. Muhammad Sharif Jan P. W. Present inside one of the rooms talking to petitioner No. 2 where Mst. Akhtar (a respondent in another case filed in the same Court) was also present. On an inquiry the aforesaid Captain told the S. H. O. That he was called in by petitioner No. 2 and offered the enjoyment of the company of Mst. Akhtar on payment of some cash but he had spurned the offer telling her that he was not a man of that type. Wajid Ali Shah, another P. W. In the case, stated that Mst. Akhtar had also given a gesture to him to attract his attention for the…

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