Law: Criminal Procedure Code, 1898

Section: 497(2) , 498

Law: Penal Code (XLV of 1860)

Section: 353, 186, 147, 148 , 149

Criminal Procedure Code ( V of 1898 ) ---

---- Ss. 497(2) & 498 ---Penal Code ( XLV of 1860) , Ss. 353, 186, 147, 148 & 149---Assault or criminal force to deters public servant from discharge of his duty, obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions, rioting, armed with deadly weapon , unlawful assembly--- Pre-arrest bail , grant of --- Bailable offence(s) --- Further inquiry---Sessions Court declined grant of pre-arrest bail to the accused persons(petitioners) --- Validity ---No doubt, the applicants were nominated in the FIR, however, the offences with which they had been charged, were bailable---Grant of bail in bailable offence is the indefeasible right of an accused---In present case, though the offences were bailable and grant of bail in bailable offences is indefeasible right of the accused , even then request of the petitioner /accused was turned down by the Court below on flimsy grounds --Case against the applicants required further inquiry in terms of subsection (2) to S.497 Cr.P.C.---Interim bail already granted to the applicants, was confirmed in circumstances.

Mian Mahmud Ali Qasuri and others v. The State PLD 1963 SC 478; Tariq Bashir and 5 others v. The State PLD 1995 SC 34 and Muhammad Tanveer v. The State and another PLD 2017 SC 733 ref.