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Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898)--- ----S. 497(2)---Emigration Ordinance (XVIII of 1979), S.17---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss.420 & 468---Passports Act (XX of 1974), S.6---Running illegal Travel Agency, cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property, forgery for purpose of cheating, possessing forged documents---Bail, grant of---Further inquiry---Allegation against accused was that he was found running illegal travel agency---Accused, could not produce any valid licence and raid of police led to the recovery of Pakistani Passports, other documents meant required for travelling abroad---Whether accused was owner of the travel agency, or he was chance visitor to the same was yet to be seen---Possession of a forged document, was not an offence, unless it was proved that same had been prepared or used with active connivance of a person---Knowledge of accused qua falsity or genuineness of the Passports, was a question to be determined after recording evidence, but accused could not be kept behind the bars for indefinite period when commencement of the trial was not in sight---Punishment provided in offences for which accused was charged, did not fall within the prohibitory limb of S.497, Cr.P.C.---Grant of bail in circumstances, was a rule, and refusal an exception---On tentative assessment of material, case of accused required further probe---Accused was admitted to bail, in circumstances. THIS JUDGMENT DELIVERED BY: MUSARRAT HILALI, JUSTICE:----------- Petitioner, through petition in hand, seeks bail in case FIR No.1 dated 5.1.2016 registered for offence under section 17, Emigration Ordinance, 1979, 420/468, P.P.C. read with section 6, Passports Act by Police Station FIA/A.H.T.C. Mardan. 2. As per information received by Mr. Hidayat, Assistant Director FIA regarding running of illegal travel agency by petitioner, thus, acting on the same the complainant along with other police nafri raided the said travel…

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