IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PAKISTAN 
(Appellate Jurisdiction) 
 
 
PRESENT: 
Mr. Justice Umar Ata Bandial 
Mr. Justice Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed 
 
 
 
Civil Petition No.3213-L of 2019  
(Against order dated 2.10.2019 
[assed by the Lahore High Court 
Multan Bench Multan in W.P. 
No.10300/2019) 
 
 
Muhammad Islam 
 
 
 
…Petitioner(s) 
 
 
 
 
 
Versus 
 
The State through Advocate General Punjab,  
Lahore, etc. 
…Respondent(s) 
 
 
 
For the Petitioner(s): 
Mr. Asaf Faish-ud-Din Verdeg, ASC  
along with M. Islam 
 
For the Respondent(s): 
N.R. 
 
 
Date of hearing: 
14.04.2020. 
 
ORDER 
 
 
 
Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed, J.- Apprehending arrest, 
Muhammad Islam, petitioner, seeks admission to bail; he is amongst 
array of the accused in a NAB reference; a dismissed constable of 
Special Branch, he is blamed to have lured, alongside co-accused, 
members of the public to invest in his Multan based travel agency, 
styled as “Bin Islam Travels & Tours” ; lucrative profits, offered by the 
accused, attracted no less than 61 investors in the business, 
subsequently turned out as farce; he attempted to pacify the 
disappointed clientele by issuing bank cheques, bounced upon 
presentation.  
 
In the backdrop of petitioner’s failure before a learned Division 
Bench of the Lahore High Court at Multan, his learned counsel 
contends that he was being hounded on trump up charges, 
manipulated by his adversary Zaheer Babar, a Police Inspector, 
currently serving as Station House Officer; that without prejudice to 
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petitioner’s position, the accusation does not fall within the remit of 
NAB’s jurisdiction as the group of alleged affectees does not constitute 
“public at large”, leaving the issue to be more aptly dealt with in regular 
criminal/civil jurisdiction; projecting the agency as a non-governmental 
organization, the learned counsel concluded that the petitioner merely 
drew commission paid by various airlines and as such cannot be held 
responsible for betrayal of offered windfall to the investors. 
2. 
 
Heard. Record perused. 
3. 
 
Principles, applicable to grant of anticipatory bail in a 
cognizable/non-bailable offence are by now well entrenched; these do 
not admit denials or parallel stories to ward off evidence/material prima 
facie constituting the offence nor the witnesses can be stripped off their 
credentials at the investigative stage so as to divert the usual course of 
law; a claimant must point out circumstances, reasonably suggesting 
abuse of process of law with strappings of mala fide, lurking behind the 
intended arrest; statements of 61 persons with diverse and different 
backgrounds, clamouring foul play cannot be summarily brushed aside 
to accommodate petitioner’s plea; same goes for a detailed and 
comprehensive investigative process, carried out pursuant to call up 
notice, followed by an inquiry, findings whereof, are prima facie pointed 
upon petitioner’s culpability for an offence wherein grant of bail is 
narrowly jacketed. Petition fails. Leave refused.   
 
 
 
Judge 
 
 
 
 
Judge 
Islamabad, the 
14th April, 2020 
Not approved for reporting 
Azmat/- 
