IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PAKISTAN 
(Appellate Jurisdiction) 
 
 
 
PRESENT: 
 
Mr. Justice Mazhar Alam Khan Miankhel 
Mr. Justice Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed 
  
 
Criminal Petition No.691 of 2020  
(Against the judgment dated 3.4.2020 of the 
Peshawar 
High 
Court, 
Peshawar 
passed 
in 
Cr.MBA No.446-P of 2020) 
 
 
Shehryar Khan 
 
.…Petitioner(s) 
 
 
 
 
 
Versus 
 
The State and another 
….Respondent(s) 
 
For the Petitioner(s): 
 
Mr. Asad Ullah Khan Chamkani, ASC 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  
 
 
For the State: 
 
 
Mr. Anis M. Shahzad, ASC 
 
 
Gul Wali, Inspector/I.O. 
 
For the Complainant: 
Mr. Riazat ul Haq, ASC 
 
Date of hearing: 
03.08.2020. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
ORDER 
 
 
      
 
Qazi Muhammad Amin Ahmed, J.-   Shehryar 
Khan, 
petitioner, attributed a fatal shot to Sabir-ur-Rehman, deceased, in his 
mid 60s, at 9:30 a.m. on 13.04.2019, within the remit of Police Station 
Daduzai Peshawar, in the backdrop of a dispute over immovable property, 
seeks admission to bail, primarily on the strength of a ‘cross version’ 
structured upon a fire arm injury, sustained by Majid Khan, co-accused, 
no other than his real brother, medically examined under a police docket 
on the fateful day. Petitioner, after the incident, stayed away from law and 
was, accordingly, proceeded under Section 512 of the Code of Criminal 
Procedure 1898; he was finally taken into custody on 12.02.2020.  
2. 
 
Heard. Record perused.     
3. 
 
It would be less than expedient to comment upon the merits of 
the prosecution case, bracing a cross version set up on an injury, 
sustained by the co-accused, pressed into service with vehemence to 
construct hypothesis of self defence, a controversy to be best settled by the 
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trial Court. Argument regarding suppression of injury sustained by Majid, 
co-accused, in the face of identical suppression in the cross version 
regarding the fatal shot on to the deceased, does not bring petitioner’s case 
at a higher pedestal so as to be received with favour. Saddled with the 
responsibility of the fatal shot, petitioner’s absence from law, additionally, 
stands in impediment to his release on bail. Given the role attributed to 
the petitioner, existence of a cross version, veracity whereof is yet to be 
settled, by itself would not bring his case within the purview of further 
probe. Petition fails. Leave declined. 
 
  
 
Judge 
 
 
 
 
Judge 
Islamabad, the 
3rd August, 2020 
Not approved for reporting 
Ghulam Raza/- 
 
 
 
 
