IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PAKISTAN 
(Appellate Jurisdiction) 
 
 
PRESENT:  
Mr. Justice Sh. Azmat Saeed, ACJ 
Mr. Justice Ijaz ul Ahsan 
Mr. Justice Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed 
 
Criminal Petition No.533 of 2019  
(Against the judgment dated 22.4.2019 
passed by the Peshawar High Court, Bannu 
Bench 
in 
Criminal 
Miscellaneous 
B.A. 
No.123-B/2019). 
 
Alamgir Khan 
…Petitioner(s) 
 
VERSUS 
 
The State and another 
…Respondent(s) 
 
 
For the Petitioner(s) 
: Mr. Salahuddin Malik, ASC   
 
 
Mr. M.A. Sheikh, AOR 
 
For the State 
: Mr. Zahid Yousaf Qureshi,  
Addl. A.G. KPK. 
Muhammad Alam, A.S.I. 
 
 
 
Date of Hearing 
: 31.7.2019. 
 
O R D E R 
 
 
Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed, J.-   Alamgir Khan, 
petitioner herein, declined downstairs throughout, seeks 
admission to bail; he was surprised by a raiding party, within 
the precincts of Police Station Lakki Marwat, surreptitiously 
siphoning 
natural 
gas 
in 
a 
residential 
premises 
to 
unauthorizedly generate electricity being distributed to a large 
number of consumers in the neighborhood; he is also accused 
of criminally intimidating the contingent, brandishing a pistol 
on them, however took to the heels on arrival of police. 
Appliances 
being 
used, 
comprising 
electric 
generators, 
stabilizers with electric panels as well as other paraphernalia 
to power the system were secured vide inventory. 
2. 
 
Position taken by the learned counsel for the 
petitioner requires an in-depth analysis, essentially on the 
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basis of evidence, yet to be recorded and thus falls far outside 
the barriers of tentative assessment. Statements of the 
witnesses, functionaries of the State with no animus or malice, 
duly corroborated by apparatus secured from the spot, 
constitute ‘reasonable grounds’, within the contemplation of 
Section 497 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 to prima 
facie frame the petitioner with the charge that attracts the bar 
contained therein as Section 462-C of the Pakistan Penal Code, 
1860 carries a punishment that may extend to ten years 
rigorous imprisonment. View taken by the Courts below being 
well within the remit of law is not open to any exception. 
Petition fails. Dismissed.   
   
 
Acting Chief Justice 
 
 
 
JUDGE 
 
 
 
Islamabad, the 
31st of July, 2019 
Ghulam Raza/* 
JUDGE 
 
 
