MUHAMMAD ADIL NAWAZ BHATTI vs CHAIRMAN UNION COUNCIL NO — 2025 PLD 340 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE

Case information

Citation: 2025 PLD 340 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Court: Lahore High Court
Year: 2025
Reporter: PLD
Parties: MUHAMMAD ADIL NAWAZ BHATTI vs CHAIRMAN UNION COUNCIL NO
Subject matter: Family
Provisions referred to: Muslim Family Laws Ordinance

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Judgment text as reported

MUHAMMAD ADIL NAWAZ BHATTI VS CHAIRMAN UNION COUNCIL NO. 116-EME Ss. 2(b) & 7---Rules under the Muslim Family Laws Ordinance, 1961, R. 3(b)---Notification S.R.O. No. 1086(K)61 dated 09.11.1961---Pakistan origin spouses living abroad having developed strained relations---Divorce proceedings, carrying out of---Jurisdiction/authority---Non-disclosure of proceedings abroad---Approaching Court with unclean hands---Petitioner (Overseas Pakistani) filed constitutional petition against refusal of the concerned Chairman Union Council (respondent) to issue him divorce effectiveness certificate---Validity---Petitioner did not disclose the factum of initiation of proceedings before the District Courts in Germany with regards to complaint against physical assault, claim for separate accommodation and maintenance, meaning thereby the petitioner had not approached the High Court with clean hands---Thus, the impugned order passed by the respondent/ Chairman Union Council (respondent) had rightly been passed while construing law on the subject, which did not need any interference by the High Court---Constitutional petition, having no force and substance, was dismissed, in circumstances.

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