IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PAKISTAN 
(Appellate Jurisdiction) 
PRESENT: 
Mr. Justice Mushir Alam 
Mr. Justice Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed 
  
Criminal Petition No.630 of 2020 
(Against the order dated 4.6.2020 passed by the Lahore 
High Court Multan Bench Multan in Crl. Misc. No.1598-
B/2020) 
 
 
Muhammad Mumtaz Ahmad & others 
…Petitioner(s) 
 
 
 
 
 
Versus 
The State & another  
….Respondent(s) 
 
For the Petitioner(s): 
 
Syed Rifaqat Hussain Shah, AOR 
 
 
 
 
with petitioners in person  
 
 
 
 
 
 
For the State: 
Mr. M. Sarwar Sidhu,  
 
Additional Prosecutor General Punjab 
 
 
 
 
with Taj Muhammad, SI. 
 
  
For the Complainant: 
Mr. Zulfiqar Khalid Maluka, ASC 
Date of hearing: 
24.08.2020. 
 
 
 
 
ORDER 
 
  
Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed, J.- Petitioners are blamed to 
have caused injuries, after forming an unlawful assembly, to the witnesses 
inside the safety of complainant’s home located within the remit of Police 
Station Miranpur District Vehari; they agitated a cross version that failed 
with the police. A learned Additional Sessions Judge at Mailsi primarily 
declined their request for bail in anticipation to their arrest on the ground 
that after the assault they repeated violence for which two different First 
Information Reports dated 05.02.2020 and 09.02.2020 were lodged during 
the period they were on ad interim bails; they did not display a better 
conduct in the High Court either; they were admitted to ad interim  
pre-arrest bail by a learned Judge-in-Chamber on 20.3.2020 on the 
condition of bonds, however, till the time of final hearing that took place as 
late as on 4.6.2020 they were found to have failed to file the bonds as 
directed by the Court.  
 
2. 
 
Heard. 
Criminal Petition No.630 of 2020 
 
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3. 
 
It is a run of the mill criminal case wherein two sides 
confronted each other over an incident of eve-teasing; it graduated into a 
situation wherein both sides appeared to have sustained injuries and 
despite considerable lapse of time in the face of petitioners’ failure in their 
cross-version, they remained away from law by invoking a remedy which 
has judicially been devised to protect the innocent from the rigors of abuse 
of process of law initiated for purposes other than noble; the protection 
cannot be granted to stifle the investigative process and as such 
petitioners’ case does not fall in that category, particularly in view of their 
conduct before the Courts below, found by us as far from being enviable. 
Petition fails. Leave declined. 
 
 
 
Judge 
 
 
 
 
Judge 
Islamabad, the 
24th August, 2020 
Not approved for reporting 
Azmat/- 
 
