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Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898)----- ----S. 497(2)---Offences Against Property (Enforcement of Hudood) Ordinance (VI of 1979), S.17(3)---Bail, grant of---Further inquiry--­Accused remained in police custody for full one week and no explanation was forthcoming for not taking him to Magistrate for purpose of holding of the Identification Test---Accused had remained in custody, for about four months---Case of accused was covered under subsection (2) of S.497, Cr.P.C. for further inquiry---Accused was admitted, to bail, in circumstances. 1999 P Cr. L J 412; 1987 M L D 1003 and 1987 P Cr. L J 2423 ref. ORDER The applicant Salman Shahzad seeks bail in a case under section 17(3) of the Offences Against Property Ordinance, 1979 (F.I.R. No.154 of 2001 of the Police Station Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi), pending trial before the Court of learned IV Additional Sessions Judge, Karachi East. Brief facts of the prosecution case as mentioned in the bail application are that. "I reside at the above given address alongwith my family and am employed with Service Shoes Store as a Manager. On 3-2-2001, I alongwith Saleem Hussain, Muhammad Ejaz, Waqar Ali and Security Guard Muhammad Javed were present while at about 8-15 p.m. three persons two of them armed with T.T. Pistols, between the age group of 29 to 30 years, speaking in Urdu, entered into the shop and as soon as they entered, two of them overpowered guard Javed and snatched his .30 bore licensed pistol bearing No.3954 and made us standing aside and took cash Rs.3,200 out of the counter of shop and fled away. I and my companions can recognize them on seeking again. We have been making search so far by ourselves but no clue was found. Now, I have come to report, action be taken". It was contended on behalf of the applicant that the applicant was already in the custody of police, when the case against him was registered on 17-2-2001 as F.I.R. No.154 of…

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