ORDER SHEET

IN THE HIGH COURT OF SINDH, KARACHI
 
Crl. Bail Application No.123 of 2013

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Date              Order with signature of Judge

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DATE OF HEARING 02.07.2013

 

M/s Hussain Bux Solangi and Manzoor Hussain Khoso, Advocate for the Applicants.

 

Mr. Ali Hyder Saleem APG.

 

 

Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi J;     By this order I intend to dispose of instant Criminal Bail Application filed by the Applicants Muhammad Nawaz and Sahib Khan.

The brief facts as narrated in the FIR No.645/2012 registered under section 496-A/34 PPC at P.S. Gulistan-e-Jouhar, Karachi are that on 30.09.2012 at about 6:00 P.M. accused persons namely Muhammad Nawaz, Sahib Khan, Feroz Ali and one unknown person kidnapped the wife of the complainant namely Shahwal with intention to commit zina with her. Mr. Hussain Bux Solangi learned Counsel for the applicant made statement at Bar that subsequently prosecution added section 376 PPC in the Charge-sheet. The applicants filed bail Application No.2323/2012 before learned Sessions Judge, Karachi-East, the same was dismissed on 22.1.2013 by the learned Ist Additional Sessions Judge, Karachi. Hence, this bail application.

 

Learned Counsel for the Applicants contended that Applicants are innocent and have been falsely implicated in the present case due to enmity and malafide intention in collusion with police. Learned counsel for the Applicants submitted that Mst. Wazira real sister of the complainant and PW Ranjhan Ali, Muharam Ali and the Cousin of Barkat Ali and relative of SIP Jawed Ahmed Babar (I.O. of the case) has contracted a second marriage with Nazir Ahmed son of Rozi Khan Babar younger brother of the applicants for which the complainant party was angry and they called a Jirga and declared the spouses Mst. Waziran and Nazir Ahmed as Karo Kari and decided to kill them. Mst. Waziran filed C.P. No.D-1329/2012 in the Circuit Court of this Court at Hyderabad, wherein complainant and Pws were arrayed as respondents for quashment of FIR No.173/2012 lodged by the complainant Aijaz Ali under section 365-B/496-A PPC at P.S. Khairpur Nathan Shah against the husband of Mst. Waziran, brother of the present applicant. Learned Counsel for the Applicants has placed reliance upon Memo of Petition filed alongwith statement dated 26.6.2013 field in the Circuit Court of this Court at Hyderabad, wherein it is categorically stated that SIP Jawed Babar Investigating Officer of Crime No.465/2012 of P.S. Gulistan-e-Johar and ASI Mir Muhammad Babar posted at P.S. Gulistan-e-Johar, Karachi, who are Respondents No.4 and 5 in the aforesaid petition and both are relatives of the complainant and they by misusing their official power and designation managed to lodged FIR against the Applicants.

 

Learned Counsel for the Applicant further argued that complainant Aijaz Ali and his brothers who are prosecution witnesses lodged several FIRs against the Applicants and their relatives as the younger brother of the Applicants married with the real sister of the complainant, who has filed C.P. No.D-1329/2012 and C.P. No.D-1250/2013 at Circuit Court of this Court at Hyderabad. Learned Counsel for the Applicants further stated that the Applicant No.1 is aged about 70 years while the Applicant No.2 is about 60 years both have been implicated due to enmity as the younger brother of the Applicants is the husband of the real sister of the complainant, who has filed petitions, referred to above.

 

Mr. Ali Hyder Saleem learned APG vehemently opposed the bail application and stated that FIR was registered by the police after directions of the Justice of Peace/Sessions Judge, Karachi-East and the abductee in her statements recorded under sections 161 and 164 Cr.P.C. has implicated the Applicants.

 

I have heard M/s. Hussain Bux Solangi and Manzoor Hussain Khoso, Advocate for the Applicants, Mr. Ali Hyder Saleem APG and perused the material available on record with their assistance.

On tentative assessment of the material available on record, it transpired that matrimonial dispute between the parties was already existed before registration of the FIR. Real sister of the complainant filed C.P. No.D-1329/2013 and the Divisional Bench of this Court vide order dated 31.07.2012 quashed FIR No.173/2012 lodged by the Aijaz Ali. In another FIR bearing No.177/2012 the Court restrained the police not to arrest anyone unless they have some positive evidence. Investigating Officer of the case according to the learned Counsel for the Applicants is the relatives of the complainant as stated in the memo of petition viz C.P. No.D-1250/2013. Malafide on the part of the complainant and the abductee with the applicants cannot be ruled out in the circumstances discussed above. Hence, the case of the Applicants is of further inquiry, therefore, they are entitled for grant of bail at this stage.

 

Above are the reasons of my short order dated 02.07.2013 whereby the present Applicants were granted bail subject to furnishing solvent surety in the sum of Rs.100,000/- (Rupees One lac only) each and P.R. Bond in the like amount to the satisfaction of the learned Trial Court.

            Observations made hereinabove are of tentative nature and the trial Court shall not be influenced by any such observation.

 

           

                                                                                                J U D G E

Karachi

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