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This is an application for grant of pre-arrest bail to Allah Bachaya, petitioner, in case under sections 292/353, 186/225, 506, P.P.C. and section 18 of the Motion Pictures Ordinance, 1979, registered at Police Station Naushera Jadeed, District Bahawalpur, vide F.I.R. No.45 of 1990.

2.  The prosecution case is that on receiving information that Ghulam Haider, owner of a hotel situate, in Mubarakpur, was exhibiting Indian film on V.C.R./T.V., and was charging Rs.5 as a ticket. HC Muhammad Bashir of Police Station Naushera Jadeed conducted raid on the hotel. He found Allah Bakhsh and others, 13 persons named in the F.I.R. seeing the film. He arrested all the 13 persons present in the hall, He took into possession T.V., V.C.R., and film. At this juncture, Allah Bachaya, petitioner, came there. He resisted and got the accused released from the custody of the police and also snatched the V.C.R. and TN., from the police.