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MUNIR AHMAD vs FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Ministry of Interior, Islamabad art — 2025 PLD 747 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE

Case information

Citation
2025 PLD 747 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Court
Lahore High Court
Year
2025
Reporter
PLD
Parties
MUNIR AHMAD vs FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Ministry of Interior, Islamabad art
Subject matter
Criminal

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Judgment text as reported

MUNIR AHMAD VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Ministry of Interior, Islamabad art. 199---Constitutional petition---Public Interest Litigation (PIL)---Habitual litigants---Effect---Petitioner on behalf of a Non-Governmental Organization invoked constitutional jurisdiction of High Court on the same cause of action which had already been dismissed by another High Court---Held: Habitual litigants are increasingly flooding Courts with frivolous petitions---Police Interest Litigations (PILs) are filed on almost every subject under the sun---Many such petitions are (mere) exercises for garnering publicity---This tends to destroy sanctity of PILs which are a powerful instrument of securing socio-economic justice for the marginalized and underprivileged---Time of Court is exhausted in dealing with frivolous cases with no genuine cause of public concern---Such tendency must be firmly stopped by providing orders for anticipatory costs---Unless this is done, the Court would become a helpless spectator to loss of public time and resources in dealing with motivated litigation---When several hundred thousand cases await judicial decision, Court cannot allow an institution, administering justice to become a hapless victim of frivolous filings---High Court restrained itself from taking any adverse action against the petitioner at present stage---Constitutional petition was dismissed, in circumstances.

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