IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PAKISTAN 
(Appellate Jurisdiction) 
 
 
PRESENT: 
Mr. Justice Mazhar Alam Khan Miankhel 
Mr. Justice Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed 
 
 
 
Criminal Petition No. 692 of 2020 
(Against the judgment dated 9.3.2020 passed by 
the Peshawar High Court Peshawar in Cr.M.BA. 
No.236-P/2020)  
 
 
Ikhtiar Khan 
 
 
…Petitioner(s) 
 
 
 
 
 
Versus 
 
 
Sarfraz Khan & another  
 
…Respondent(s) 
 
 
For the Petitioner(s): 
Mr. Asad Ullah Khan Chamkani, ASC 
 
For the State: 
Malik Akhtar Hussain Awan,  
 
Assistant Advocate General KPK along 
with Kabir, I.O. 
 
Date of hearing: 
06.08.2020. 
 
ORDER 
 
 
 
Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed, J.- Akbar Khan, Wattey, 
Alamzaib, Khawaja Muhammad, Hidayat Ullah and Misbah Ullah were 
on way to attend proceedings in a Court of Session when the petitioner 
along with co-accused intercepted them at 7:30 a.m. on 13.8.2003 
within the  precincts of Police Station Batgram District Charsadda; in 
the wake of indiscriminate firing, the vehicle boarded by the deceased 
plunged into the nearby canal; none survived the assault; he stayed 
away from law for considerable span of time and surrendered after 
acquittal of some of the co-accused on the strength whereof he sought 
bail albeit with no success.  
2. 
 
 Heard. Record perused. 
3. 
 
Acquittal of some of the co-accused,  has not been received 
as a valid ground for petitioner’s release on bail, both by the Court of 
Session as well as the High Court, a view found by us as 
unexceptionable. Statements of the witnesses supported by medical 
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evidence and recovery from the spot constitute “reasonable grounds” 
within the contemplation of section 497 of the Code of Criminal 
Procedure 1898, aggravated by petitioner’s inordinate absence going on 
for an age, standing insurmountably in impediment to his release on 
bail, a concession discretionary in nature. View taken by the High 
Court, being well within the bounds of law, does not call for 
interference. Petition fails. Leave declined. 
 
 
 
Judge 
 
 
Judge 
Islamabad, the 
6th August, 2020 
Not approved for reporting 
Azmat/- 
