IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PAKISTAN 
(Appellate Jurisdiction) 
 
 
PRESENT:  
MR. JUSTICE MUNIB AKHTAR 
MR. JUSTICE QAZI MUHAMMAD AMIN AHMED 
 
 
 
 
 
Criminal Petition Nos.1088 to 1090 of 2021 
and 1111 and 1136 of 2021 
(Against the order dated 2.8.2021 passed by the Lahore 
High Court Multan Bench in Cr. Misc. Nos.3156-B 3157-
B, 2596-B, 2597-B & 3801-B of 2021) 
 
Muhammad Yousaf   
(in Cr.P.1088, 1089 & 1136/2021) 
Ehsan Ullah  
(in Cr.P.1090, 1111 /2021) 
… Petitioner(s) 
Vs 
The State and another  
… 
Respondent(s) 
 
 
 
 
For the Petitioner(s)  
: 
Mr. Dil Muhammad Alizai, ASC 
Syed Rifaqat Hussain Shah, AOR 
 
 
 
For the State  
: 
 
 
Ch. M. Sarwar Sidhu,  
Addl. P.G. Punjab with Imran, DSP, 
Shoukat, SI, Rehmat Ali, Excise SI 
 
 
Date of Hearing 
: 
07.12.2021 
 
 
 
 
 
ORDER 
 
 
 
 
Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed, J.:-  Consequent upon a 
single transaction with registration of different criminal cases, bail 
petitions wherefrom, were decided by the High Court through 
orders of even date, bear  a common thread and, thus, are being 
decided through this single order. 
2. 
 
On a tip off, Shoukat Hayat, SI of Police Station Doulat 
Gate Multan intercepted a Mini Truck bearing Registration 
No.TKZ/301 
with 
Muhammad 
Yousaf 
and 
Ehsan 
Ullah, 
petitioners on board, on 25.6.2020; at first, 5 packets of cannabis 
weighing 6000 grams were found in the cabin; besides the 
contraband a sum of Rs.105,000/- was secured vide inventory. As 
the investigation progressed, Ehsan Ullah was found to have 
impersonated himself as Muhammad Younas, a subterfuge 
rectified forthwith. This followed by multiple disclosures by the 
accused leading to seizure of other consignments, surreptitiously 
concealed in different cavities of the vehicle as well as beneath the 
Cr.P. Nos.1088 to 1090 of 2021 and 1111 and 1136 of 2021 
 
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cargo. It was through intensive effort that the police finally 
succeeded 
with 
the 
help 
of 
electric 
cutters 
to 
discover 
meticulously concealed cache, the last after the vehicle had 
already moved to the precincts of Police Station Lohari Gate. It is 
in this backdrop that as many as five First Information Reports 
were recorded to encompass the whole episode, a complexity, 
ingeniously highlighted by the learned counsel in his attempt to 
project multiple recoveries from the single vehicle at two police 
stations as a sham exercise.  
3. 
 
Heard. Record perused. 
4. 
 
A considerable cache comprising 56.400 k.g. cannabis 
was concealed in different cavities, discovered pursuant to 
piecemeal disclosures through elaborate investigate efforts 
involving steel cutters and, thus, it was humanly not possible for 
the police contingent to conclude the exercise in one go; they 
proceeded with the registration of cases as and when the 
recoveries became available and this certainly does not allow, 
within the limited space of tentative assessment, to entertain any 
manner of doubt for imposition of such a huge cache as in the 
given facts and  circumstances of the case, there was no smarter 
way to better systematize the conclusion of investigative 
proceedings. Material collected coupled with the statements of the 
witnesses clearly attracts the mischief of section 51 of the Control 
of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997, standing insurmountably in 
impediment to petitioners’ release on bail. Petitions fail. Leave 
declined.  
 
 
Judge 
Judge 
Islamabad, the 
7th December, 2021 
Azmat/* 
