IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PAKISTAN 
(Appellate Jurisdiction) 
 
 
PRESENT: 
Mr. Justice Maqbool Baqar 
Mr. Justice Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed 
 
 
Criminal Petition No.1271 of 2019 
(Against order dated 21.11.2019 passed 
by Lahore High Court Lahore in Crl. Misc. 
No.65106-B/2019) 
 
Babar Latif 
  
 
…Petitioner(s) 
 
 
 
 
 
Versus 
 
The State through P.G. Punjab & another 
 
…Respondent(s) 
 
For the Petitioner(s): 
Khawaja Awais Mushtaq, ASC 
 
For the respondent(s): 
Mr. Azhar Ch. ASC 
 
Syed Rifaqat Hussain Shah, AOR 
 
For the State: 
Mirza Abid Majeed,  
 
Deputy Prosecutor General, Punjab 
 
with Anwar, SI. 
 
Date of hearing: 
16.1.2020. 
 
ORDER 
 
 
 
Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed, J.- Behind bars since 
28.8.2019, Babar Latif, petitioner seeks admission to bail; he 
alongside co-accused is attributed fatal shot to the deceased, en 
route with his sons on 27.4.2019 at 9:00 p.m. within the remit of 
Police Station Saddar Sialkot; crime report sans the motive. 
Specific role qua the deceased notwithstanding, nonetheless, the 
petitioner was blamed by the investigator to have instead abetted 
the crime without being present at the spot. Co-accused Adnan, 
saddled with the recovery of .30 caliber gun has since been 
arrested; forensic report regarding comparison of the gun with the 
casings is being awaited. 
2. 
 
Heard. Record perused. 
3. 
 
There are five accused, each armed lethally, assigned 
distinct shot to the deceased after having waylaid/intercepted the 
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entourage, leaving others unscathed; findings recorded by the 
Investigating Officer are not inconsonance with the accusation 
assigned to the petitioner, taking on board each assailant distinctly 
with a solitary shot at a desolate place during dark hours. In the 
totality of circumstances, petitioner’s culpability, without prejudice 
to the prosecution case set up in the crime report, can be best 
settled after recording of evidence and as such his plea warrants 
further probe within the contemplation of subsection 2 of section 
497 of the Code of Criminal Procedure 1898. A case for grant of 
bail stands made out. Consequently, criminal petition is converted 
into appeal; allowed. The petitioner shall be released on 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.   
 
 
 
Judge 
 
 
 
 
Judge 
Islamabad  
16th January, 2020 
Not approved for reporting 
Azmat/- 
