2024 SCMR 1479 Bail After Arrest Case Laws & Judgments Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi, J. Through this petition the petitioner has impugned the order dated 04.03.2024, passed by the Lahore High Court, Lahore in Criminal Miscellaneous No.69212-B of 2023, whereby the post arrest bail was declined to him in case FIR No.103 dated 22.12.2021, registered under Sections 161, 162, 109, 409 PPC read with Section 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947 at Police Station FIA/ACC, District Lahore.
2. The allegation levelled against the petitioner is that he along with other co-accused attracted the complainant by offering the award of tenders of Rehabilitation Department of Pakistan Railways with a handsome profit and in this regard the complainant has to pay the tenders’ amount in advance in order to meet the market expenses on the pretext that there would be normal delay in clearance of the government cheques against the tenders payment. Hence, the petitioner along with other accused extorted an amount of Rs.19,800,000/- from the complainant through different modes.
