KARACHI, June 27: A division bench of Sindh High Court, comprising Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali and Justice Muhammad Mujeebullah Siddiqui, on Friday dismissed bail plea of two in Explosive Act case and directed the trial court to decide their matter till July 31.
Appellants Abbas Haider and Moeed Anwar, who are facing trial before Special Judge (East) under Sections 4, 5, 6 of the Explosive Act, moved bail applications before SHC on ground that their case was still pending since 2001.
According to prosecution, police arrested them on June 29, 2001, in Gulistan-i-Jauhar area and recovered two kgs of explosives from their possession.
They disclosed during investigation that explosives were meant for making firecrackers to harass people so that they do not come out of their homes in the local bodies elections of July 2, 2001.
The court, after hearing the arguments of both sides, observed that it was an established principle pertaining to bail that if a case was at an advanced stage in the trial court, the superior court does not entertain bail application and abstains from seeking any observation so that discretion of trial court is not affected.
The court directed the prosecution side to close its side on the next hearing on July 2 in trial court and directed the concerned court to decided the matter till July 31.
Meanwhile, the same bench dismissed the quashment appeal of a man in being tried in an anti-narcotics court.
According to prosecution, appellant Aman Gul was arrested by CID police on March 24, from Gulshan-i-Maymar Karachi and police recovered 2kgs of heroin powder and illegal weapons from him.
The appellant moved the quashment plea before court on the ground that chemical analyzer report pertaining to narcotics substance was negative and stated that the investigation officer had also placed its report before the court. The investigation officer’s report was dismissed by the trial court with the directives to send another sample to the lab as mentioned in the lab report which was not fulfilled.—PPI