Law: Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898)

Section: 497(1)

Mst. Zarina Jan alongwith two male accused is involved in a case of car lifting. The accused had allegedly hired a motor-car on 11-1-1991 from Kotli Azad Kashmir for Tarbela and when reached at Ghazi at 8-00 p.m. they snatched the vehicle from its driver and decamped. A report was lodged at P.S. Ghazi on 13-1-1991 by Muhammad Siddique driver and a case registered under section 14 of Ordinance No.VI of 1979. All the three accused were later on arrested. They have made judicial confessions.

2.  Be this as it may the offence allegedly committed by the accused is not covered by the prohibitory clause under section 497(1), Cr.P.C. wherein the grant of bail is a rule and refusal an exception besides the fact, that she is a woman and her case falls under first proviso to subsection (1) of section 497 of the Code.