IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PAKISTAN 
(Appellate Jurisdiction) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
PRESENT:  
MR. JUSTICE MUNIB AKHTAR 
MR. JUSTICE QAZI MUHAMMAD AMIN AHMED 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Criminal Petition No.167-P of 2021 
(Against the order dated 22.10.2021 passed by the 
Peshawar High Court Peshawar in Cr. M. No.3206-
P/2021) 
 
 
 
Abdul Rehman 
… Petitioner(s) 
Vs 
 
The State and another  
… 
Respondent(s) 
 
 
 
 
 
 
For the Petitioner(s)  
: 
Mr. Muhammad Tariq Shah, ASC 
 
 
 
For the State 
: 
Sayyed Nayyab Hassan Gardezi, 
Deputy Attorney General with Tariq I.O. 
 
Date of Hearing 
: 
09.12.2021 
 
 
 
ORDER 
 
 
Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed, J.:- The petitioner is 
accused of having cyber stalked defamatory messages along with 
photographs of complainant’s daughter in law to her husband; the 
matter was reported to the Federal Investigating Agency, pursuant 
whereto, in the wake of a detailed inquiry, devices transmitting the 
impugned communication were secured upon his disclosure that 
conclusively established his culpability as the source behind 
family’s embarrassment. Attempts for post arrest bail failed lastly 
before a learned Judge-in-Chamber of the Peshawar High Court 
Peshawar vide impugned order dated 22.10.2021, leave to appeal 
wherefrom is being prayed for primarily on the ground that the 
offences complained do not fall within the prohibitory clause of 
section 497 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 and 
investigation being complete there is no justification to depart from 
the rule. 
 
 
Cr.P.167/2021 
-:2:-
2. 
Heard. Record perused.  
3. 
Ordinarily, upon conclusion of investigation in criminal 
cases falling outside the remit of “prohibition” motions for release 
on bail are favourably received, nonetheless, the practice is not 
without limitations. In the present case, privacy of a young lady 
has grievously been intruded to the utter embarrassment of her 
family; even her marriage went into peril. The incident was 
reported by her father-in-law and, thus, in the facts and 
circumstances of the case, we do not feel persuaded, in our 
discretion, by the submission made at the bar so as to take a 
different view than concurrently taken by the Courts below. 
Petition fails. Leave declined. However, the learned trial Court is 
directed to expeditiously proceed with the trial so as to conclude it 
within a period of four months. Investigating Officer, in attendance, 
is directed to ensure presence of witnesses on the date fixed for 
recording of evidence.  
       
 
Judge 
Judge 
Islamabad, the 
9th December, 2021 
Azmat/* 
