Law: Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898)

Section: 497

  (On appeal from the judgment and order of the High Court of West Pakistan, Lahore, dated the 16th January 1970, in Criminal Miscellaneous No. 270 of 1970). Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 497-Bail-Accused aged 60 to 65 years allegedly having raised mere Lalkara enlarged on bail by lower Courts-Question whether offence ascribed to accused amounted to offence of abetment still requiring determination at trial-High Court, in circumstance, held, rightly refused cancellation of bail-Petition for Leave to Appeal dismissed. Date of hearing : 8th April 1970. JUDGMENT SAJJAD AHMAD, J.-This petition for special leave to appeal is directed against the order of a learned Single Judge of the High Court of West -Pakistan, whereby he refused to cancel the bail of the respondent No. 1 which was granted to him by the learned Sessions Judge, Gujranwala, in a pending murder case. The reasons given by the Sessions Judge and accepted by the learned Single Judge are that the respondent is an old man of 60 to 65 years of age and the only part ascribed to him was that he raised a lalkara before his co-accused attacked the deceased. We…