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" CHALLENGING ORDER OF ACQUITTAL CHALLENGING ORDER OF ACQUITTAL   CHANGE NEEDED IN PROCEDURAL LAW       By   KHAWAJA SHAUKAT ALI,   Advocate, High Court of West Pakistan   During the days of British Rule in the Sub‑Continent certain ideas, precedents, principles and notions had developed which this day are being followed and adhered to in quite a faithful and submissive manner as if it is our bounden duty to blindly tread upon the line propounded and formulated by the foreign rulers keeping in view their own special interests and imperialistic policies.   NEW TRENDS   The procedure relating to matters of law and order in its entirety might have suited the pre‑Independence period quite satisfactorily but it can't be asserted by any keen and careful observer of panorama of life all around us that the procedural laws enacted as far back as 1898 do necessarily serve the purpose of dealing with or disposing of criminal events, incidents or cases, which daily crop up in our fast developing society with unusual new trends, strange ideas and dreadful actions and re‑actions. In this article I propose to deal with only one facet of these procedural laws which relates to acquittal (of the accused) in serious hurt cases or cases of death by intentional murder or through accidents.   Section 417 F:   Section 417 of the Code of Criminal Procedure reads as follows:   "The Provincial Government may direct the Public Prosecutor to present an appeal to the High Court from an original or appellate order of acquittal passed by any Court other than a High Court."   It would appear from the wording of this section that only the Public Prosecutor (under the orders of the Government) can file an…