Senator KHALIDA ATEEB vs The PROVINCE OF SINDH through Chief Secretary,Government of Sindh, Karachi art — 2024 PLD 273 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH

Case information

Citation: 2024 PLD 273 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Court: Sindh High Court
Year: 2024
Reporter: PLD
Parties: Senator KHALIDA ATEEB vs The PROVINCE OF SINDH through Chief Secretary,Government of Sindh, Karachi art
Subject matter: Constitutional

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Judgment text as reported

Senator KHALIDA ATEEB VS The PROVINCE OF SINDH through Chief Secretary,Government of Sindh, Karachi art. 199---Writ jurisdiction of High Court---Public interest litigation---Scope---Constitutional petition was filed by a Member of Parliament to assail minutes of a meeting of the Sindh Cabinet as well as a letter of the SGa&C Department of the Sindh Government---Present constitutional petition appeared to be an attempt to seek publicity, without any justifiable cause of action---Public interest litigation ought not to be aimed at seeking publicity and the law required the Court to ascertain whether the applicant was acting in a bona fide manner---Public interest litigation should not be a mere adventure, an attempt to carry out a fishing expedition and/or to settle personal scores---Court must distinguish between public interest litigation and publicity motivated litigation, private interest litigation and/or politically motivated litigation---In the lis before the High Court, petitioner remained unable to set forth a case for the invocation of its discretionary constitutional jurisdiction---Constitutional petition was dismissed, in circumstances.

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