IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PAKISTAN 
(Appellate Jurisdiction) 
 
 
PRESENT: 
Mr. Justice Mazhar Alam Khan Miankhel 
Mr. Justice Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed 
 
 
Criminal Petition No.610 of 2020 
(Against the judgment dated 21.5.2020 passed by 
the Lahore High Court Lahore in Crl. Misc. 
No.20425-B/2020) 
 
 
Muhammad Noman Munir  
 
 
…Petitioner(s) 
 
 
 
 
 
Versus 
 
 
The State & another   
 
…Respondent(s) 
 
 
For the Petitioner(s): 
Syed Qamar Hussain Sabzwari, ASC 
 
For the Respondent(s): 
N.R. 
 
Date of hearing: 
10.07.2020. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
ORDER 
 
 
      Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed, J.- Surprised at 12:30 p.m. on 
23.1.2020 by a contingent of Police Station Kotwali Sialkot, Muhammad 
Noman Munir, petitioner herein, was found in possession of cannabis 
weighed as 1380 grams with a lethal combination of 07 grams of heroin; 
courts below declined his request for admission to bail.  
 
Submissions at the bar range from absence of a witness from the 
public to a quantity bordering slightly beyond the volume covered by 
section 9 (c) of the Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997.  
2. 
 
Heard. 
3. 
 
1380 grams of cannabis with 07 grams of heroin squarely fall 
within the mischief of the section ibid that attracts prohibition embodied in 
section 51 of the Act ibid and as such the argument being presumptuous 
is beside the mark. Insofar as non-association of a witness from the public 
is concerned, people collected at the scene, despite request abstained to 
assist the law and it is so mentioned in the crime report itself, a usual 
conduct symptomatic of societal apathy towards civic responsibilities. 
Criminal Petition No.610 of 2020 
  
 
2
Even otherwise, the members of the contingent being functionaries of the 
State are second to none in their status, with their acts statutorily 
presumed, prima facie, as intra vires. Refusal by the Courts below being 
well within the remit of law calls for no interference. Petition fails. Leave 
declined.  
 
 
 
Judge 
 
 
 
Judge 
Islamabad, the 
10th July, 2020 
Not approved for reporting 
Azmat/- 
 
