BASHIR WAQAS Versus THE STATE

ORDER

This is an application for grant of bail to Bashir. Waqas petitioner in case under section 17 of the Offences Against Property (Enforcement of Hudood) Ordinance, 1979 registered at P.S. Satellite Town, Gujranwala vide F.I.R. No. 614, dated 1-10-1987.

2. The allegations are that the petitioner and Ehsan Ullah co-accused after having armed themselves criminally trespassed into the house of Professor Zia-ur-Rehman and forcibly took away cash of Rs.2,000 and a wrist watch, etc. on pistol point.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a student; that the occurrence took place in the darkness of the night; that Rs.300 only have been recovered from the petitioner; that the petitioner is less than 18 years in age, not an adult person, and that the petitioner has to appear in the examination which is to be held in the near future. Learned counsel for the State has opposed this application.

4. I have considered the submissions made by the learned counsel for the parties with care. I find that it is a serious case. The allegations against the petitioner are that he and his co-accused trespassed into house of the complainant while armed with revolver and dagger; that they threatened the inmates of the house with dire consequences and forcibly took away cash and other articles from the house. The submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner travel beyond the scope of tentative assessment and do not make out a case for the grant of bail to the petitioner.

For what has been said above, there being no merit, the petition is dismissed.

S. A./B-48/L Bail refused.