{"id":3650,"date":"2025-06-20T17:06:06","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T12:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/?p=3650"},"modified":"2025-06-20T14:37:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-20T09:37:25","slug":"shc-grants-bail-to-dha-road-rage-suspects-as-complainant-withdraws-objection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/2025\/06\/20\/shc-grants-bail-to-dha-road-rage-suspects-as-complainant-withdraws-objection","title":{"rendered":"SHC Grants Bail to DHA Road Rage Suspects as Complainant Withdraws Objection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\"><strong>ISLAMABAD: The Sindh High Court (SHC) has granted bail to businessman Salman Farooqi and co-accused Awais Hashmi in the high-profile DHA road rage case, following no-objection affidavits filed by the victim and complainant.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Justice Arshad Hussain Khan&#8217;s bench approved bail against Rs100,000 surety bonds each, while warning that any misuse of bail privileges could lead to immediate cancellation by the trial court.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Case Background and Judicial Proceedings<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">The incident occurred weeks ago when the accused allegedly assaulted a motorcyclist and his sister following a minor collision with their Mercedes on Khayaban-i-Ittehad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">A viral social media video of the altercation prompted police to register an FIR under multiple PPC sections including assault, wrongful confinement, and criminal intimidation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">The bail approval came after the sessions court rejected their initial applications, forcing the defendants to approach the SHC for relief.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Conditions and Judicial Observations<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">The bench noted the accused had no prior criminal records and weren&#8217;t required for further investigation after weeks in custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Justice Khan emphasized the court&#8217;s observations wouldn&#8217;t influence the trial court&#8217;s final verdict on case merits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">The order specifically empowered the trial court to cancel bail without SHC reference if defendants violate bail terms during proceedings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ds-markdown-paragraph\">Legal experts highlight this as a balanced decision considering the changed circumstances after the victim&#8217;s withdrawal of opposition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: The Sindh High Court (SHC) has granted bail to businessman Salman Farooqi and co-accused Awais Hashmi in the high-profile DHA road rage case, following no-objection affidavits filed by the victim and complainant. Justice Arshad Hussain Khan&#8217;s bench approved bail against Rs100,000 surety bonds each, while warning that any misuse of bail privileges could lead &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1187,309,1821],"class_list":["post-3650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-accountability","tag-justice","tag-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3652,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions\/3652"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}