Allowed to proceed on its own merits and merely because civil proceedings relating to same transaction had been instituted

-    Criminal case must be allowed to proceed on its own merits and merely because civil proceedings relating to same transaction had been instituted, it had never been considered to be a legal bar to the maintainability of criminal proceedings which could proceed, concurrently because conviction for a criminal offence was altogether a different matter from the civil liability.

Seema Fareed and others
Versus
The State and another.
2008 S C M R 839
Rana Bhagwandas and Saiyed Saeed Ashhad, JJ