Mst. SAFIA vs SABIT ALI S — 2025 PLD 49 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN

Case information

Citation: 2025 PLD 49 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
Court: Balochistan High Court
Year: 2025
Reporter: PLD
Parties: Mst. SAFIA vs SABIT ALI S
Subject matter: Family
Provisions referred to: S. 5

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Judgment text as reported

Mst. SAFIA VS SABIT ALI S. 5, Sched.---Suit for recovery of dowry articles---Family suit filed by the parents of spouse---Locus standi---Husband pleaded that petitioners/parents of his deceased wife had no locus standi to file a family suit for recovery of dowry articles---Validity---Jurisdiction of a Family Court is circumscribed and is restricted to the "matters" mentioned in S. 5, Sched., which shows that it does not empower a Family Court to adjudicate upon a claim of a party qua his/her right of inheritance or Tarka---Petitioners being parents of deceased spouse, who was wife of defendant/respondent, sought share in the dowry articles being Tarka, for which they had approached the Family Court by way of filing a suit for recovery of dowry article and since determination of share in the Tarka of a deceased or its distribution did not fall within the jurisdiction of the Family Court, thus, suit was not maintainable and they had no locus standi to approach the Family Court---Constitutional petition was dismissed, in circumstances.

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