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| 2023 SLG 2021 2023 SLD 2021 = 2023 PLD 108 |
Write Petition No. 177 of 2021, decided on 24th January, 2023.
Before Sardar Liaqat Hussain and Syed Shahid Bahar, JJ
Raja Gul Majeed Khan for Petitioner. Syed Tabish Hazoor Imam Kazmi for
Respondent No.2. Raja Saeed Ahmed, Addl. A.G. for the State.
Raja MUHAMMAD BASHIR KHAN---Petitioner
VERSUS
JUSTICE OF PEACE/DISTRICT AND SESSIONS JUDGE, MUZAFFARABAD and 2 others---Respondents
Law: Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898)
Section: 22-A , 22-B , 154
(a) Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898)---
----Ss. 22-A, 22-B & 154---Powers of Ex-officio Justice of Peace---Information in cognizable cases---Registration of second FIR---Scope---Petitioner assailed order passed by Ex-officio Justice of Peace whereby second FIR of the incident, portraying a different angle, was ordered to be lodged---Validity---Section 154, Cr.P.C. was a key in the hand of an informer to get activated the investigation by the police and nothing more than that---Contention of petitioner that second FIR was not permissible, was discarded---No infirmity, illegality or judicial error was found in the impugned order---Writ petition was dismissed.
2016 YLR 1065; 2022 PC.LJ 235 and Kh. Muhammad Naeem v. Justice of Peace 2014 SCR 1049 ref.
PLD 2018 SC 595 distinguished.