MAQBOOL AHMED MAHESSAR vs NATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY BUREAU (NAB) S — 2021 SCMR 1166 SUPREME-COURT

Case information

Citation: 2021 SCMR 1166 SUPREME-COURT
Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan
Year: 2021
Reporter: SCMR
Parties: MAQBOOL AHMED MAHESSAR vs NATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY BUREAU (NAB) S
Subject matter: Criminal
Provisions referred to: S. 498---P

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Judgment text as reported

MAQBOOL AHMED MAHESSAR VS NATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY BUREAU (NAB) S. 498---Pre-arrest bail, grant of---Scope---Grant of pre-arrest bail in a cognizable/non-bailable offence was a remedy, most extraordinary in the nature of judicial protection, extended by diverting usual course of law for the sole purpose of protecting reputation and honour of an innocent citizen, being hounded through abuse of process of law for purposes sinister and oblique---Such protection was based upon equity and could not be extended in every run of the mill criminal case prima facie founded upon incriminatory evidence, warranting custody for investigative purposes.

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