Law: Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898)

Section: 526, 156

Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), Ss. 526 & 156-Transfer of criminal cases-Investigation, stay of-Petitioner seeking order from High Court directing Police to stay investigation of case and also to transfer complaint to High Court on apprehended grounds that police may not take any action and Governor may be interested in favour of accused-Apprehensions of petitioner based on certain reports appearing in newspapers not well founded-Accused not arrested so far and investigation otherwise quite incomplete-Interference by High Court declined, such course amounting to interruption in ordinary course of administration of justice. Emperor v. Kh. Nazir Ahmad A I R 1945 P C 18 and Shahnaz Begum v. Hon'ble Judges of the High Court of Sind & Baluchistan PLD 1971SC677rel.                                                                                                                              ORDER Mst. Rafia Sajjad Hussain who resides with her three daughters, namely, Tahira Sajjad, Farah Sajjad and Samia Sajjad, at 5-Zafar Colony, Samanabad, Lahore, lodged a report at 8-45 P.m. on the 18th of March 1972 at Police Station, Nawankot, alleging the abduction of her two daughters first mentioned immediately above. According to the report, at about 7-45 p.m. her daughters were returning to their home, having been coached by a cousin who lives at 10-Zafar Colony, when they were waylaid just in front of their house by Fayyaz Khan and Jamal, shown as respondents 1 and 2 herein. They caught hold of Tahira Sajjad and Farah Sajjad and showed them into a Toyota LEH-9446 Car, which was parked on the other side of the street and was kept start by Yousuf Khan and Hukam Badshah, respondents 3 and 4 herein. Somehow or the other, Samia Sajjad, it was stated, succeeded in making good her escape. Upon hearing the hue and cry raised by Tahira Sajjad and Farah…