Law: Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898)

Section: 561A

Law: Penal Code (XLV of 1860)

Section: 354, 452

Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 561-A-quashment of proceedings-Partial quashment-Police finding petitioner innocent placing her in Column No. 2 of challan form--Complainant and her husband as against version in F. I. R. not accusing petitioner before trial Court to have come to their house, found complainant all alone, and left, whereafter other accused trespassed into their house and beat complainant-Trial Court nevertheless summoning petitioner as accused-Petitioner, held, not justifiably summoned as accused -Proceedings quashed partially qua petitioner -Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 354 do 452.                                                                                                                                ORDER This is a petition for partial quashing of proceedings pending against the petitioner and others under sections 354 and 452, P.P. C. in the Court of Mr. M. Ria:, M. I. C., Khanewal, The case was registered at P. S. Mian Channu on 1st February 1972 on the report of Mst. Khurshid Bibi complainant. According to the allegations contained therein, ten or eleven days earlier; at about 8/9 p. m. while she was sitting alone in her house and was performing ablution for offering Isha prayers, Mst. Rehmat Bibi, present petitioner, came there, sat with her for a while, and, on inquiry, being told that the complainant's husband and son were out of station, she left. Soon thereafter, Sarang, Ramzan, Nizai and Ali accused armed with lathis trespassed into the house in spite of her protest that she was a purdahnashin lady, gave her a beating, and dragged her outside in the lane. Several persons were attracted to the spot by an alarm when the accused left her and ran away. She sustained six injuries on the knee, back, thigh and head. On the next morning she accompanied by Sardara Mirassi went in search of her husband…