IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PAKISTAN 
(Appellate Jurisdiction) 
 
 
 
PRESENT: 
Mr. Justice Maqbool Baqar 
Mr. Justice Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed 
 
Criminal Petition No.1672-L of 2019 
(Against order dated 02.12.2019 
passed by Lahore High Court Lahore 
in Crl. Misc. No.51181-B of 2019) 
 
 
Zulfiqar 
  
 
…Petitioner(s) 
 
 
 
 
 
Versus 
 
The State & another 
…Respondent(s) 
 
For the Petitioner(s): 
Mr. Muhammad Ramzan Chaudhary, 
ASC 
 
Mr. Arshad Ali Chaudhry, AOR 
 
For the State: 
Mirza Abid Majeed,  
 
Deputy Prosecutor General Punjab 
 
with Abid, I.O. 
  
  
For the Respondent(s): 
Mr. Sajjad Hussain, ASC 
 
 
 Date of hearing: 
15.1.2020. 
 
ORDER 
 
 
 
Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed, J.- Behind bars since 
14.06.2019, Zulfiqar, petitioner seeks admission to bail. It is 
alleged that on the fateful day, he alongwith his two sons 
accompanied by three unknown assailants, each armed with a .30 
caliber pistol, confronted Muhammad Shakeel Jahangir, deceased 
in the backdrop of a motive relating to a dispute over property; he 
is attributed first shot to the deceased on his right shin followed by 
fire shots by the co-accused. Autopsy revealed three entry wounds. 
Effective role qua the deceased assigned in the crime report 
notwithstanding, the petitioner has been found by the Investigating 
Officer to have merely abetted the crime without being at the spot. 
2. 
 
Heard. Record perused. 
3. 
 
Accompanied by two able bodied sons, each lethally 
armed, whether the petitioner had any occasion to venture the 
Civil Petition No.1839 of 2018 
 
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occurrence is an issue to be best settled after recording of 
evidence. Number of fire shots sustained by the deceased is not 
commensurate with the volley of fires collectively made by the 
assailants including the unknown is a circumstance that 
additionally warrants further probe. Acceptance of plea raised by 
the petitioner, statedly in his late sixties, is yet another 
circumstance converging in his favour; his culpability certainly 
calls for further probe, thus, a case for his release on bail stands 
made out. The petitioner shall be released on his furnishing bonds 
in the sum of Rs.500,000/- with two sureties each in the like 
amount to the satisfaction of the learned trial Court.  The petition 
is converted into appeal and allowed.  
 
 
Judge 
 
 
 
 
Judge 
Islamabad  
15th January, 2020 
Not approved for reporting 
Azmat/- 
