High Court can suo moto cancel bail of accused

Citation Name : 2000 SCMR 735 SUPREME-COURT Side Appellant : WAQAR HUSSAIN Side Opponent : STATE S.5(2)—Penal Code (XLV of 1860), S .161/223/219/109/120-B–Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 439—Constitution of Pakistan (1973), Art. 185(3)—Suo motu notice issued to accused by High Court for cancellation of bail- –Law had conferred Suo motu powers of revision on High Court to ensure that the Court s subordinate to it had acted strictly within the legal bounds without transgressing their jurisdiction and the findings, sentence or orders recorded or passed by them were just and legal, but nevertheless in order to avoid any impression of arbitrariness in the exercise of such power, the order of initiating Suo motu proceedings by the High Court should have mentioned the ostensible error or irregularity in the orders or proceedings of the subordinate Court s in order to enable the parties to know the reasons for such an action-