IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PAKISTAN 
(Appellate Jurisdiction) 
 
PRESENT: 
Mr. Justice Umar Ata Bandial 
Mr. Justice Syed Mansoor Ali Shah 
Mr. Justice Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed 
 
 
Criminal Petition No.1549 of 2021  
(Against the order dated 09.12.2021 passed by the Lahore High 
Court Lahore in Crl.Misc. No.66270-B/2021) 
 
 
Rashad Imran 
 
 
…..Petitioner(s) 
 
 
 
 
 
Versus 
 
The State & another  
…Respondent(s) 
 
For the Petitioner(s): 
Mr. Aftab Alam Yasir, ASC 
 
Syed Rifaqat Hussain Shah, AOR 
 
     
 
 
For the State:              
Mr. Ahmad Raza Gillani,  
 
Addl. P.G. Punjab 
 
For Respondent No.2:              In person 
 
 
Date of Hearing          
26.01.2022. 
 
ORDER 
 
 
Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed, J.- Apprehending arrest, 
Rashid Imran, petitioner herein, after failure before the High 
Court, seeks bail in anticipation thereto; he along with co-
accused was intercepted by a Veterinary Officer on 23.6.2021 at 
9:00 p.m. with 500 k.g. beef and  60 k.g. mutton on a meatless 
day. Upon inspection, the complainant found the confiscated 
stuff cold on touch, dark reddish in texture emitting bad smell 
and as such manifestly unfit for human consumption; it carried 
fake stamps as deceit to suggest ante mortem slaughter. Upon a 
complaint, the police registered a criminal case, subsequent 
whereto, the impounded meat was destroyed with magisterial 
intervention.  
2. 
 
Heard. Record perused.  
3. 
 
An inordinate stress laid by the learned counsel on 
the vires of exercise undertaken by the Veterinary Officer Gojra, 
notwithstanding, the seizure of substandard meat, grievously 
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injurious for human consumption, on a meatless day i.e. 
Wednesday is established through the inventories of even date. 
Association of a Magistrate further lends credence to the 
procedure adopted. Quantity of confiscation is too considerable 
to be manipulated to set up a fake case, nor there appears any 
earthly reason for the complainant, a State functionary tasked 
with the responsibility of ensuring hygienic livestock supplies to 
the public, to proceed against the petitioner with motives, 
oblique or sinister, a sine qua non to suspend the mechanics of 
criminal law that mandatorily requires arrest in cognizable 
cases, scheduled as non-bailable. Petition fails. Leave declined.     
 
  
 
Judge 
 
 
Judge 
 
 
Judge 
Islamabad, the 
26th January, 2022 
Azma/- 
