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1969 SCMR 55

CHAN SHAH VS STATE

Petitioner: CHAN SHAH VS Respondent: STATEHonorable Justice SAJJAD AHMAD

Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan

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1969 S C M R 55

1969 S C M R 55

Present : Hamoodur Rahman and Sajjad Ahmad, JJ

CHAN SHAH AND OTHERS‑Petitioners

versus

THE STATE‑Respondent

Petition for Special Leave to Appeal No. 269 of 1968, decided on 8th October 1968.

(On appeal from the judgment and order of the High Court of West Pakistan, Lahore, dated 13‑6‑1968, in Criminal Miscellaneous No. 2006/68).

Bail

---Joint petition by several accused for Special Leave to Appeal before Supreme Court concerning bail‑During pendency of petition, bail granted by inquiry Court to some of petitioners Aggrieved petitioners, in circumstances, directed to move High Court first against fresh order rejecting their bail application.

S. Jamil Hussain Rizvi, Senior Advocate Supreme Court, instructed by Syed Wajid Hussain, Senior Attorney for Petitioners.

Nemo for the State.

Date of hearing : 8th October 1968.

JUDGMENT

SAJJAD AHMAD J.‑It is stated by the learned counsel for the petitioners that during the pendency of this petition, the inquiry Court which has recorded a good part of the evidence of the prosecution, has on x fresh application by the accused persons allowed bail to three of them and has refused it to the others. This has created a new situation rendering the present petition as infructuous. The aggrieved petitioners must try their remedy in the High Court against the fresh order rejecting their bail application before they make a resort to this Court.

The petition is dismissed.

Petition dismissed.

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