QASIM ALI vs FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN R — 2026 PLD 190 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE

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QASIM ALI VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN R.15---Public Debt act (XVIII of 1944), Ss.2(2), 23, 24 & 28---Law Reforms Ordinance (XII of 1972), S.3(2)---Prize bond, payment of---Holder of prize bond failing to submit a claim within prescribed time (six years)---Legality---Vires of Rule placing cut-off period, challenge to---Briefly, the appellant who was a holder of a prize bond of Rs.1,500/- issued on 25.11.1999 was declared entitled to prize money of Rs.1,000,000/- in the draw dated 15.08.2003 but did not submit a claim within the prescribed period---Upon approaching the State Bank of Pakistan in 2014, his request was declined on the basis of R.15 of the Prize Bonds Rules, 1999 prescribing a six-year limitation---The appellant's constitutional petition challenging the vires of R.15 was dismissed by the Single Judge-in-Chambers, leading to the present intra-court appeal---The issue requiring determination was "whether R.15 of the Prize Bond Rules, 1999, fixing a six-year period for claiming prize money and terminating governmental liability thereafter, was ultra vires or inconsistent with Ss. 23 & 24 of the Public Debt act, 1944?"---Held: Prize Bond Rules, 1999 were framed, prescribing the form in which the bonds were ought to be issued and while prescribing the same in R.15 it was made incumbent upon the holder of a prize bond to make a claim at any time within a period of six years from the date of the relative draw failing which the liability of the prize money stood terminated---There seemed a wisdom for such a cut off period, as the Government could not be left in a state of limbo, oblivion and conundrum awaiting for such claims for an indefinite period to satisfy hundreds and thousands of prize holders who were delinquent in coming forward within the prescribed period---Order passed in the constitutional petition required no interference by the Divisional Bench---Intra court appeal was dismissed, in circumstances.

QASIM ALI vs FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN R — 2026 PLD 190 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE

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