IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PAKISTAN 
(Appellate Jurisdiction) 
 
PRESENT: 
Mr. Justice Maqbool Baqar 
Mr. Justice Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed 
Mr. Justice Amin-ud-Din Khan 
 
 
 
Criminal Petition No.1319-L of 2021  
(Against the order dated 5.8.2021 passed by the Lahore High 
Court Lahore in Crl. Misc. No.450305-B/2021) 
 
 
 
Shahid Aslam 
 
 
 
…Petitioner(s) 
 
 
 
 
 
Versus 
 
 
The State 
 
…Respondent(s) 
 
For the Petitioner(s): 
Mr. Mazhar Iqbal Sidhu, ASC 
 
 
 
 
For the State: 
Rana Abdul Majid,  
 
Addl. Prosecutor General Punjab with 
Bilal Mehmood Sulehri, ASP  and Javed, 
I.O. 
 
For the Complainant: 
Ch. Abdul Wahid, ASC 
 
Mian Ghulam Hussain, AOR 
 
Date of Hearing: 
05.01.2022. 
 
ORDER 
 
 
 
 
Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed, J.:- Shahid Aslam, 
petitioner herein, was earlier booked by Green Town police Lahore 
for issuing a bank cheque in sum of rupees 7 million, bounced upon 
presentation. It is in this backdrop that he settled the issue by 
issuing another cheque in favour of the complainant before a learned 
Judge-in-Chamber of the Lahore High Court Lahore, in consequence 
whereof, he was admitted to anticipatory bail vide order dated 
11.8.2014; the second cheque also failed upon presentation, 
bringing him back once again behind the bars on 14.6.2021.  
2. 
 
Chequered successive failures, notwithstanding, the 
learned counsel contends that the petitioner had cleared up 
substantial portion of his liability, a position though contested at the 
bar, nonetheless, confirmed by Bilal Mehmood Sulehri, Assistant 
Superintendent of Police. 
 
 
3. 
 
Heard. Record perused. 
4. 
 
Be that as it may, what appears to have weighed with 
the learned Judge-in-Chamber to deny post arrest bail to the 
petitioner is his failure to recompense the complainant, a pledge that 
he made before the Court, in lieu whereof, he was extended 
extraordinary concession of pre-arrest bail. The arrangement, 
seemingly under the sword of democles fails to commend our 
approval, inasmuch as, the Court being a neutral arbiter owed 
responsibility to none except the law. Parameters for grant of pre-
arrest bail, by now, are authoritatively well settled, to be followed 
faithfully and, thus, there was no space to be allocated to the 
petitioner to barter his freedom, in derogation thereof; petitioner’s 
unenviable conduct, notwithstanding, nonetheless, does not alter 
the above juridical position.  
 
Charged with an offence that does not attract the statutory 
bar,  the petitioner is in custody since 14.6.2021, continuation 
whereof, is not likely to serve any useful purpose preceding final 
adjudication; as case for his release on bail stands made out. 
Criminal Petition is converted into appeal and allowed; the 
petitioner/appellant is admitted to bail on his furnishing bond in the 
sum of Rs.500,000/- with one surety in the like amount to the 
satisfaction of the learned trial Court. 
 
 
  
 
 
  
 
Judge 
 
 
Judge 
 
 
Judge 
Islamabad, the 
5th January, 2022 
Azmat/- 
