IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PAKISTAN 
(Appellate Jurisdiction) 
 
PRESENT: 
Mr. Justice Manzoor Ahmed Malik 
Mr. Justice Sajjad Ali Shah 
Mr. Justice Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed 
 
Cr. Misc. Application No.1404 of 2019  
in  
Cr. Review NIL of 2019 
In  
Cr. Appeal No.23 of 2006 
(Permission to file and argue the review petition) 
 
Raja Farhat Iqbal 
 
 
…Applicant 
 
 
 
 
 
Versus 
 
The State 
…Respondent 
 
For the Applicant: 
In person 
 
(assisted by Mr. Ghulam Sajjad 
Gopang, ASC, with permission of 
the Court) 
 
  
For the State: 
N.R. 
  
 
 
Date of hearing: 
15.10.2019. 
 
ORDER 
 
 
          Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed, J. Raja Farhat 
Iqbal, applicant herein, accused in a case of homicide, was 
acquitted by the trial Court; High Court of Sindh, however, 
reversed the findings and while returning a guilty verdict, 
sentenced him to imprisonment for life, vide judgment dated 
28.12.2005, vires whereof were challenged through an appeal; the 
complainant dissatisfied with the quantum of sentence came up 
with a petition for enhancement of sentence, however, without 
success. It was on 25-3-2009 when applicant’s learned counsel 
opted to withdraw the appeal, consequently dismissed; his 
subsequent attempt to seek a review of dismissal of his appeal 
failed on 12.3.2019; his failures, notwithstanding, he was released 
on parole way back on 24.1.2015 and it was one of the reasons 
that weighed with the Court to decline the review. The applicant 
has approached in person once again and was joined by  
Mr. Ghulam Sajjad Gopang, ASC during the proceedings; they are 
aggrieved by the office refusal to entertain their application on the 
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ground that after dismissal of earlier review petition, there was no 
occasion to entertain the request and it is in this backdrop that the 
present application (Cr.M.A. No.1404 of 2019) has been posted 
before us.  
2. 
 
Dismissal of review petition foreclosed avenues for 
subsequent attempts by the applicant and for that law is well 
settled by now. The applicant cannot escape the consequences of 
course adopted by his duly engaged counsel merely on the ground 
that he had not so instructed him, that too so late in the day. 
Being 
hopelessly 
misconceived, 
the 
instant 
application 
is 
dismissed.   
 
     
Judge 
 
 
Judge 
 
 
Judge 
 
Islamabad, the  
15th October, 2019 
Azmat/- 
