Acknowledgement

In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful. “O Allah,
send prayers and peace upon Our Master Muhammad and his Family”.

Alhamdulillah, I am so blessed that I have managed to put an end to my

internship session successfully with ALLAH’S blessings. I would like to
thank Him for giving me good health and ability to go through my
internship peacefully and well.

I express my sincere thanks to my Head of Department Dr. Jibran

Jamshed. I would like to express my special thanks of gratitude to my
supervisor Advocate Muhammad Mushtaq Warraich for granting me the
opportunity to intern under him. His support and guidance helped me in
learning a lot about the practical side of law. I am grateful to the clerical
staff of Warraich Law Chamber for the hospitality, guidance and the
facilitating in line with the legal profession that they gave me.

I’m also thankful to my mentor, ideal advocate and guide respected

Advocate Tajjmal Hussain Chadhhar that he recommended me to
Advocate Muhammad Mushtaq Warraich as it had been an honor to work
with respected Sir and I’ll look forward to follow the footsteps of respected
Sir wherever I practice in the future. The basic proceedings of criminal law
that I have learned there are going to help in my initial stages of career as a
professional lawyer.

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 Finally, I extend my heartfelt gratitude to my family members especially
my parents for the maximum support they have financially, morally and
emotionally offered to ensure that my internship exercise is successfully
finished.

Last but not the least, I would like to thank my classmates who have
helped me a lot.

Syed Wakeel Kazim

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 Table of content

Topic Page No.

General Objectives………………………………3

Specific Objectives………………………………3

Introduction of the Chamber…………….………4

Internship Detail………………………………….4

Brief introduction of Criminal law in Pakistan…..5

Mechanism of Criminal Case……………………5

First Information Report…………………………5

Power of Police to Investigate……………………6

Bail Defined……………………………………...7

Acquittal and Conviction………………………...8

Cases and Summaries……………………………..9

Conclusion……………………………………….10

Suggestions ……………………………………….11

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  General objectives

The content of the internship must relate to legal studies in a broad sense and be
rooted in a specific project dealt with during the period of internship.
The general objective of the internship is to increase the student’s ability to:
• participate and work actively and analytically in Law-related issues at the place of
internship or in Courts.
• use Law-related research terms and contexts in connection with specific issues at the
place of internship.

 Specific competency objectives

At the end of the internship period, the student will have acquired the following
competencies:
• visualize and apply theoretical terms and contexts related to Law in practice.
• demonstrate the ability to solve a prearranged task effectively in co-operation with
the place of internship.

 Introduction of the Chamber

Warraich Law Chamber was opened in 2002 by Sir Mushtaq and it is also
known as chamber no. 22. It is located behind the Bar Association Bahwalpur in
District and Session Court Bahawalpur.
Advocate Mushtaq Warraich solely lead this chamber and use it as his office
of work having the experience of 22 years. He has a number of clients from his
from his hometown Mandi Yazman as well as from Bahawalpur city and
Lodhran city.

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  Internship Detail

In this report and during internship I focused how to appear, communicate in

the court and other professional ethics and provide document, witnesses and
other things of minor but necessary nature.
I learn about courts functioning and proceedings in the criminal cases which
were a different thing found in theoretical and practical and it provided a good
experience of learning with regard to professional life this experience boosted
of self-confidence and provided further spark in the working. In short it is
search on related issue and report of my work I have tried my best to do justice
with my activities and put it in black and white in the same efforts under the
guideline of my senior.

 Brief introduction of Criminal Law in Pakistan

Criminal law concerns the system of legal rules that define what conduct is
classified as a crime and how the government may prosecute individuals that commit
crimes. For instances where an individual fails to adhere to a particular criminal
statute, he or she commits a criminal act by breaking the law.

In Pakistan the major statutes relating to criminal law are the Pakistan Penal
Code 1860 and the Criminal Procedure Code, 1898. Out of these two the former
deals in defining all the offences and mentioning their punishments along, the
former is specifically a code of procedure. The criminal procedure code is
essentially a procedural law, which provides machinery, criteria and procedure
for the punishment of offenders against the substantive criminal law that is
Pakistan Penal Code. In fact the two codes are to be read together. Apart from
these two statutes, which specifically deal in the criminal branch of law there

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 are certain other general laws which attract criminal liability but I was focusing
on these two.
 Mechanism of criminal case

First Information Report u/s 154 sets law in motion. It follows investigation.
A report on completion upon. Investigation is submitted before the court. The
court conducts inquiry and decides for the disposal of report if the same is fit for
trial or for disposal in some other manner. If the Court deems fit for trial, it
takes cognizance of the offence. Then the trial commences with the framing of
charge against the accused and is followed by evidence as per law. Upon
conclusion of evidence, arguments from both sides are heard. Then the
judgment is announced or the decision is given by the judge; the decision
culminates into either acquittal or conviction u/s 265-H of the accused of such
offence.

 First Information Report

First Information Report (referred as FIR) is a well-known technical description

of a report under section 154 of Code of Criminal Procedure 1898 which gives
first information of a cognizable offence. It is generally made by the
complainant or someone on his behalf.

 Power of police to investigate

Police is under statutory duty under section 154 CrPC and have statutory right
conferred under section 156(1) of CrPC to investigate into cognizable offences.
In case of investigation into non-cognizable offences, the police by virtue of
section 155 of CrPC will be required to obtain permission from Magistrate by

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 making an entry into concerned book as per police rules and then to investigate
the case they can neither register a case under section 154 of CrPC nor can they
arrest the accused without a warrant.

 Recording of statements of witnesses by Magistrate

Section 164 of CrPC empowers a Magistrate to record statements of witnesses

during course of investigation.

 Bail defined

The Criminal Procedure Code or any statutory law do not define the word,
‘bail’. In simple words it involves the release of a person who is formally or
legally under arrest and in custody. In legal parlance, it entails releasing of a
person from the custody of police and delivering him into the hands of sureties,
who undertake to produce him before the Court as and when he is required by
the Court.

Section 497 Cr.P.C for the grant of post arrest bail.

Section 498 Cr.P.C throw light on the topic of pre-arrest bail.

 Matters to be considered for grant of bail

 Whether there are reasonable grounds for believing that the accused has
committed the offence.

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  Nature and gravity of the charge.
 Severity of punishment in case of conviction.
 Apprehension of absconder when released on bail.
 The character, the means and the standing of the accused.
 Danger of witnesses being tampered with.
 Opportunity to the petitioner to prepare his defense.
 The period for which the petitioner has been in jail and when the trial is
likely to conclude.
 Whether the petitioner is named in the FIR or his description is given in it.
 Time taken in lodging the FIR, whether prompt.
 Whether the accused is a previous convict.

 Conviction

Conviction means to find guilty of an offence. Sentence is punishment awarded

to a person convicted in criminal trial. Conviction is followed by sentence.
 Acquittal

At the end of a criminal trial, a finding by a judge or jury that a defendant is not
guilty. An acquittal signifies that a prosecutor failed to prove his or her case
beyond a reasonable doubt, not that a defendant is innocent.
 Title of Case 1

Dilbar Aziz s/o Muhammad Aziz

Complainant
VS

Hamid Khan s/o Muhammad Khan

Respondent

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 Summary of the Case

In this case we were representing the respondent as the story tells that
both the complainant and respondent were distant relatives but due to
few personal grudge the complainant lodged a false FIR u/s 154
against the defendant of theft u/s 378 of PPC who was our client. As
the case started my senior pre-arrest bailed the client. As matter was
fraudulent and baseless.
 Tiltle of Case 2

Muqadas Mushtaq D/O M. Mushtaq

Complainant

VS

1. M.Mushtaq
2. Tayyab Ishfaq
3. M.Iftikhar

Respondents

 Summary of Case

In this case the Respondent No.1 wants the marriage of complainant without her
consent so complainant left her house and contracted marriage with the Osama
on 02-11-2023, with free consent in presence of witness. On 10-11-2023 the
Respondents forcibly entered into house beaten, the complainant and her
husband. Complainant filed private complained u/s 200 of Cr.P.C then the Court
record the statement of complainant.
In this case I observed that it is general practice in our society whenever a
female enters into marriage without the consent of their parents (Run-Away)
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 marriage generally face difficult situation even in some cases killed to preserve
the Honour of family.

 Conclusion

To conclude, I say that internship was challenging and I had to put a lot of hard
work. My two month of internship is over and I feel I have really learned a lot.
First of all I have become more familiar with the advocacy. Secondly I got
acquaint with functions and responsibilities of the advocate and of course, got
highly involved in the daily life of our division. I didn’t just learn my daily task
but I also learned about drafting, as well as its weakness and the need for
improvement. This internship has been excellent and rewarding experience. I
have been abled to meet and develop a fine and well network with so many
professional advocates and people and I will sure will able to help myself with
opportunities in the future. One main thing I have learned through this
internship is time management skills being punctual in occupational life as well
as self -motivation. I will continue to work hard and learned about the advocacy
skills. I sincerely thanks to my Seniors, Teachers, and this institution for giving
me such a precious opportunity of discovering my talent to making me better in
it.

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  SUGGESTIONS

There is no mechanism for providing financial assistance to newly enrolled

lawyers in Pakistan but there should be a sufficient remuneration in the form of
monthly stipend for First two years of practice.

The behaviour of majority of judges with young lawyers is disappointing and

mortifying the same arguments if propounded by a senior lawyer is appreciated with
the smile and if presented by a young lawyer is out-rightly rejected in very rudely
form this behaviour by judges should be changed.

It needs to be remembered that the foundation we make will define the quality
of our legal policy tomorrow.

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