ORDER SHEET

IN THE HIGH COURT OF SINDH AT KARACHI

Criminal Miscellaneous Application No.425 of 2023

DATE

ORDER WITH SIGNATUREs OF JUDGEs

 

For hearing of main case

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25.04.2025

           

            Ms. Seema Zaidi, Additional Prosecutor General Sindh

            Respondent Malik Naseer present

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            Applicant Bashir Ahmed seeks cancellation of bail of respondent/accused Malik Naseer, granted to him by XI Additional Sessions Judge Karachi West in FIR No.227/2023, registered at P.S. Docks for offence under section 324, 34, PPC. This application was filed on 26.06.2023 and is pending without any progress. Record reflects that applicant and his counsel remained absent on 17.02.2025, 28.02.2025 and today. Perusal of record shows that complainant has not cited any witness of the alleged incident in the FIR and this is a case of ineffective firing; nothing any incriminating material has been recovered from the place of incident and the alleged offence does not fall within the prohibitory clause of Section 497, Cr.PC.

 

            Respondent Malik Naseer is present in Court and submits that applicant/complainant is his father-in-law and he has registered two FIRs against him due to family dispute between them. He further submits that complainant party is not appearing in the trial Court. Even otherwise, it is well settled proposition of law that considerations for grant of bail and those for its cancellation are entirely different as held by the apex Court in case cases of Saeedullah & 2 Others versus The State (2023 SCMR 1397), Samiullah and another versus Laiq Zada and another (2020 SCMR 1115) and Shahid Arshad versus Muhamad Naqi Butt and 2 others (1976 SCMR 360).

 

            In view of the above, no case for cancellation of bail is made out. Therefore, instant criminal miscellaneous application is dismissed. However, learned trial Court is directed to decide the subject case preferably within a period of 2 months, without granting adjournments to either party on any flimsy ground, under intimation to this Court through learned MIT-II.

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Gulsher/PS