IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PAKISTAN 
(Appellate Jurisdiction) 
 
 
PRESENT: 
Mr. Justice Mushir Alam 
Mr. Justice Yahya Afridi 
Mr. Justice Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed 
 
 
 
Criminal Petition No.149-K of 2020 
(Against the judgment dated 26.08.2020 passed 
by the High Court of Sindh, Karachi in Criminal 
Bail Application No.S-100/2020) 
 
 
 
 
Kamran Attaullah and another 
 
 
 
 
…Petitioner(s) 
 
 
 
 
 
Versus 
 
 
 
The State  
 
…Respondent(s) 
 
 
For the Petitioner(s): 
Mr. Aamir Mansoob Qureshi, ASC 
 
with Kamran Attaullah and Anwar, in 
person. 
 
For the State:  
Mr. Sajid Ilyas Bhatti,  
 
Addl. Attorney General for Pakistan 
 
Qaiser Masood, Addl. Director (Law) FIA 
 
Khalid Naseem, Inspector, FIA Karachi 
 
Shabbir Chandio, Inspector FIA Karachi 
 
For the Complainant(s):  
Barrister Afzal Hussain, ASC 
 
along with Hasan Munawar, in person, 
assisted by Arslan Binyamin, Advocate  
 
Date of hearing: 
29.09.2020. 
 
ORDER 
 
 
 
Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed, J.- Declined both by the 
learned Special Judge Central-I Karachi as well as a learned Judge-in-
Chamber of the High Court of Sindh, petitioners, Deputy and Assistant 
Directors in the Federal Investigation Agency, respectively, seek leave 
of the Court for bail in anticipation to their arrest in a case registered 
with F.I.A./ACC Karachi; they are accused to have received 
gratification to the tune of rupees 24 millions from one Sheikh 
Muhammad Munawar, arrayed as accused in a financial scam to 
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subtly defraud Utility Stores Corporation to effect a massive sale 
transaction through a fake ISO certification. During the inquiry, 
incriminatory statements of various witnesses were forensically 
confirmed from the computer CDR and ledgers secured from the 
custody of co-accused Abdul Qadir Memon, a front man in the 
transaction; it was on the basis of this comprehensive probe that the 
petitioners braced the impending prosecution.  
2. 
 
Heard. Record perused. 
3. 
 
A detailed parallel story related by the petitioners 
notwithstanding, nonetheless, they were admittedly at the helm of 
affairs to call the shot and thus in a position to rescue the complainant 
from the troubled situation he was trapped; various pieces of evidence 
including forensic data, beyond susceptibility of human interference, 
unmistakably suggest a conduct perfidious to the call of their duty 
hence, prima facie, cognizable. It is by now well settled that the 
accused in a criminal case cannot be granted anticipatory bail to 
subvert or undermine investigative procedure/process that essentially 
include arrest in order to bring the statutory exercise to its logical end 
for effective and meaningful prosecution of the offence through 
collection of information/evidence consequent upon arrest. Mala fide, 
manifestly intriguing upon the intended arrest, is the only justification 
to suspend or divert the usual course of law, a step most extraordinary 
by all means; it is not a case in hand. Petition fails. Leave declined.   
 
 
 
 
Judge 
 
 
Judge 
 
 
Judge 
Islamabad, the 
29th September, 2020 
Not approved for reporting 
Ghulam Raza/- 
