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FIR registered after 20 years of transaction

  PLJ 2024 Cr.C. 618 [Islamabad High Court] Present:   Arbab Muhammad Tahir, J. Ms.  GHAZALA ALI--Appellant versus SIKANDAR RAMZAN Chaudhry and another--Respondents Crl. A. No. 172 of 2021, decided on 5.12.2023. Criminal Procedure Code, 1898 (V of 1898)-- ----Ss. 249-A & 417(2A)--Pakistan Penal Code, (XLV of 1860), Ss. 420, 468 & 471--Acquittal from charge--Registration of FIR--Transfer of house--Family settlement agreement--Settlement agreement was not cancelled--FIR was lodged after twenty years of transaction--Report of handwriting expert--Allegation of forgery--Non-implication of respondent--Estate of deceased was settled through an agreement--The appellant and her brother were also signatories of agreement--The said agreement, as per documents, still holds field and was not yet been cancelled by Court of competent jurisdiction despite questioned by appellant and her brother--Subject FIR was got registered by appellant in year 2018  i.e . after twenty-sev...

After a criminal trial, a civil action on the same cause of action is not barred

PLJ 2022 Cr.C. 201 [Lahore High Court, Lahore] Present :  Muhammad Amjad Rafiq , J. TARIQ IRSHAD--Petitioner versus SPECIAL JUDGE, etc.--Respondents Crl. Rev. No. 42994 of 2021, decided on 28.7.2021. Criminal Procedure Code, 1898 (V of 1898)-- ----Ss. 435/439--Criminal Procedure Code, (V of 1898), Ss. 195/249-A/476--Pakistan Penal Code, (XLV of 1860), S. 420/468/471--Civil and criminal proceedings--FIR was quashed registered u/S. 420/468/471 of, PPC and directed to take the forgery for dealing u/S. 476 CrPC as matters regulated u/S. 195 of, Cr.P.C.--An application u/S. 249-A of CrPC was rejected by the trial Court--FIR strikes the very basis of forged documents  i.e . manual identity card on the basis of which subsequent forged documents were prepared--Documents of first FIR were used in civil suit which suit was decreed but decree was set aside later on in pursuance of application filed u/S. 12(2) CPC--2 ND  FIR was registered on entirely different facts and premises and...