Law: Criminal Procedure Code, 1898

Section: 497

Criminal Procedure Cede (V of 1898) S. 497 Petitioners seen at place of occurrence exhorting respective Goondas to fire at meeting.. and evidence showing them distributing fire arms among assailantsDirect evidence also available against petitioners regarding their role of burning of busesEvidence, held, connected petitioners with commission of offenceBail declined, in circumstances. Dates of hearing : 11th, 15th, 18th and 19th August, 1979.                                                                                                                 JUDGMENT AFTAB HUSSAIN, J.This judgment will dispose of Criminal Misc. Nos. 2589B, 2694B, 2728B and 2926B of 1979. 2. These petitions have been filed for the bail of different petitioners who are involved in a case under section 302/307/436/148/149, 188/264 and 120, P. P. C. read with sect on 13 of the Arms Ordinance and sections 4 and 5 of the Explosives Act, known as Liaquat Bagh murder case. The first petition is by Talib Hussain, second one by Dr. Ghulam Hussain, the third by Malik Hakmeen Khan and Javed Hakeem Qureshi and the fourth is by Raja Muhammad Afzal. 3. The prosecution case is that in the early part of 1973, when the Constitution of Pakistan was being discussed in the National Assembly, the opposition found that they had no voice in the Assembly and that the Constitution was likely to be passed by the Pakistan People's Party on the basis of their absolute majority. The opposition parties, therefore, formed a united front known as United Democratic Front (U. D. F.). Being disgusted in the Assembly they chalked out a programme for holding public meetings to take the public into confidence in regard to the state of affairs arising out of the highhandedness of the Government. They decided to hold public meetings first in the Punjab and the first meeting was scheduled to be held in Liaquat Bagh, Rawalpindi, on the 23rd March,…