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2022 MLD 1966 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SAJID REHMAN VS State Evidence---Minor contradictions---Scope---Minor contradictions which do not affect the materiality of the evidence can be ignored.
2022 MLD 1966 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SAJID REHMAN VS State S.9(c)---Possession of Narcotics---Scope---Courts are supposed to adopt a dynamic approach and not to acquit the accused on technicalities.
2022 MLD 1966 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SAJID REHMAN VS State Witness---Police witness---Scope---Evidence of a police witness was as reliable as any other witness provided that no enmity existed between them and the accused.
2022 PLD 213 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD RIZWAN DALIA VS OMBUDSMAN (THE PROTECTION AGAINST HARASSMENT OF WOMEN AT THE WORKPLACE) SINDH S. 8---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Constitutional petition---Complaint of ex-employee, assailed show-cause notice---Petitioner w…
2022 CLC 1901 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
HEAL THE WORLD VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Ministry of Food Security, Islamabad art. 199---Judicial review---Powers, exercise of---Principle---In exercise of powers of Judicial review under art.199 of the Constitution, High…
2022 CLC 1901 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
HEAL THE WORLD VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Ministry of Food Security, Islamabad Ss.3 & 7---alternative Medicines and Health Products (Enlistment) Rules, 2014, Rs. 5, 7, 8, Form 6 & Form 7---Nutraceutical / health supplements…
2022 MLD 1980 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
LIAQUAT ALI VS State S.24---Possessing arms with intent to use for unlawful purposes---Criminal case, off-shoot of the main case---Acquittal of accused in the main case---Effect---When the accused was acquitted in the main case, he would be…
2022 MLD 2032 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
FAZAL HAKIM VS BASHIR KHAN S.42---Transfer of Property Act (IV of 1882), S. 55---Suit for reliefs of declaration, damages, directions, cancellation and injunction was filed by the appellant claiming that he was working abroad since long and…
2022 MLD 2032 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
FAZAL HAKIM VS BASHIR KHAN S.55---Caveat emptor---Scope---Without proving the lawful existence of subject matter which, once disputed, would render the agreement as void hence, evidence for proving sale agreement by examining the witness th…
2022 CLC 1936 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Haji UMAR VS MUHAMMAD FAROOQ MOTAN Ss.10(1) & 10(3)---Eviction petition---Personal need of landlord---Scope and proof---If the statement made on oath by landlord was consistent with the averments made by him in his eviction application and…
2022 CLC 1936 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Haji UMAR VS MUHAMMAD FAROOQ MOTAN S.10(3)---Eviction petition---Default in payment of rent----Refusal by landlord to accept rent---Burden to prove on tenant---Correct name of landlord not mentioned on money order---Petitioner (landlord) al…
2022 CLC 1936 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Haji UMAR VS MUHAMMAD FAROOQ MOTAN Ss.10(1) & 10(3)---Eviction petition---Payment of the monthly rent----Procedure---Burden to prove---Tenant was not entitled in law to deposit the rent with the Rent Controller without first offering/tender…
2022 CLC 1936 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Haji UMAR VS MUHAMMAD FAROOQ MOTAN Ss.2(h), 2(g), 10(1) & (3)---Eviction petition---Demised premises---Personal need of landlord---Default in payment of monthly rent----Burden to prove---Rent petition was filed by petitioner against respond…
2022 CLC 1945 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Syed NAJAF ALI SHAH VS MUHAMMAD IQBAL S.13---Eviction petition initiated against a dead person---Objection regarding maintainability of such petition---Respondent/landlord filed an eviction application against the deceased/tenant for his ev…
2022 CLC 1985 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Syed ASIF SHAH VS MAZHAR JAVED O.XXI, Rr.88 & 89---auction---Bid---Nature of---Scope---auctioneer's declaration of highest bidder---Direction for fresh auction before acceptance of highest bid---Petitioner had apparently offered a bid in re…
2022 CLC 2002 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
BILQUEES KHALID VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Federal Secretary Ministry of Defence, Islamabad Ss.68 & 84---Revision of assessment list of house tax---Appeals against assessment---Scope---Petitioners assailed notices issued under S. 68…
2022 CLC 2036 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
PEGASUS CONSULTANCY (PRIVATE) LIMITED VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Ministry of Defence Production Rr.29 & 32---Constitution of Pakistan, Art.199---Constitutional petition---Public procurement---Eligibility criteria---Scope---…
2022 CLC 2063 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
PROVINCE OF SINDH VS RAHIM BUX S.42---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Arts. 85 & 76---Sindh Land Revenue Act (XVII of 1967), S.42---Suit for declaration---Mutation entry---Making of that part of periodical records which relates to landowners…
2022 CLC 2063 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
PROVINCE OF SINDH VS RAHIM BUX S.42---Sindh Land Revenue Act (XVII of 1967), S.42---Suit for declaration---Making of that part of periodical records which relates to landowners---Mutation entry---Scope---Mere mutation entries in the record…
2022 CLC 2063 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
PROVINCE OF SINDH VS RAHIM BUX S.115---Civil revision---Limitation---Scope---Government departments are not to be treated any different as against a private litigant in the matter of limitation---Ordinarily, in matters wherein, any case is…
2022 CLC 2063 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
PROVINCE OF SINDH VS RAHIM BUX S.42---Mutation entry---Scope---If the foundation is illegal and defective then entire structure built on such foundation, having no value in the eyes of law, would fall on the ground.
2022 CLC 2063 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
PROVINCE OF SINDH VS RAHIM BUX S.42---Mutation entry---Scope---Mutation entry is not a document of title, which by itself does not confer any right, title or interest and the burden of proof lies upon the person in whose favour it was mutat…
2022 CLC 2063 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
PROVINCE OF SINDH VS RAHIM BUX S.42---Mutation entry---Scope---Mutation confers no title, whereas, once a mutation is challenged, the party that relies on such mutation(s) is bound to revert to the original transaction and to prove such ori…
2022 CLC 2063 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
PROVINCE OF SINDH VS RAHIM BUX art.85---Public documents---Scope---Public document cannot be ignored merely because it was not confronted and was not produced in Court; its intrinsic value shall be examined on its contents.
2022 CLC 2083 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SINDH GAMES ASSOCIATION (REGD.) VS PROVINCE OF SINDH art.199---Constitutional jurisdiction---Writ of prohibition---Scope---Writ of prohibition is a judicial writ directing a person performing functions in connection with the affairs of the…
2022 CLC 2083 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SINDH GAMES ASSOCIATION (REGD.) VS PROVINCE OF SINDH arts. 17 & 4---Freedom of association---Rights of individuals to be dealt in accordance with law---Scope---Right of individuals to enjoy protection of law and to be treated in accordance…
2022 CLC 2083 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SINDH GAMES ASSOCIATION (REGD.) VS PROVINCE OF SINDH Ss. 1 & 20---Constitution of Pakistan, Art.199---Sindh Sports Board Ordinance (VIII of 1980), Ss. 6 & 11---Societies formed by memorandum of association and registration---Applicability o…
2022 CLC 2101 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD AFTAB VS MUHAMMAD ASIF Civil and Criminal law---Standard of proof----Principles of criminal administration of justice were not similar to that of civil administration of justice because in civil jurisdiction the appreciation was do…
2022 CLC 2101 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD AFTAB VS MUHAMMAD ASIF S.115---Scope---Revisional jurisdiction of High Court---Scope---Such jurisdiction was quite narrow and normally the concurrent findings of facts could not be disturbed in revisional jurisdiction unless High C…
2022 CLC 2101 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD AFTAB VS MUHAMMAD ASIF Proof----Respondents/plaintiffs being legal heirs sought partition with regard to disputed property and for such purpose filed suit for partition of property---Applicant being son claimed ownership of the sam…
2022 CLC 2101 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD AFTAB VS MUHAMMAD ASIF S.278---administrative Suit----Scope--- Scope of administrative suit was for the administration of estate involving declaration of title and status.
2022 CLC 2124 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
FAIQUE ALI JAGIRANI VS The FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Parliaments Secretary for Law and Justice, Islamabad arts. 199, 223 & 218---Constitutional petition---Bar against double membership---Scope---Petitioner sought directions to the Chie…
2022 PLD 222 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD YOUNUS ARAIN VS State Document, tendering of---Effect---Tendering a document in evidence is wholly distinct rule, it concerns with mode of proving document itself---Existence and probative value of such document is different matter…
2022 PLD 222 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD YOUNUS ARAIN VS State S. 17---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Arts. 78, 85,91 & 134---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), Ss. 94, 340 & 540---Documentary evidence---Public document---Presumption---Photostat copies of document seize…
2022 PLD 222 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD YOUNUS ARAIN VS State arts. 72, 73, 74 & 79---Document, tendering in evidence---Effect---Tendering of document in evidence does not imply that it has been accepted by Court as an admissible piece of evidence and its probative value…
2022 PLD 222 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD YOUNUS ARAIN VS State arts. 75, 76 & 79---Photostat copy of document, tendering in evidence---Effect---When a photostat document is taken on record, subject to its admissibility and later no steps are taken to prove contents of doc…
2022 PLD 222 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD YOUNUS ARAIN VS State art. 72---Document tendered in evidence, objection to---Principle---When defence objects to tendering i.e. mode of proof of a document in evidence, it is duty of Court to decide it immediately and not defer it…
2022 PLD 222 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD YOUNUS ARAIN VS State art. 72---Documentary evidence---Inadmissible evidence---Effect---When a piece of evidence/document sought to be tendered is admittedly inadmissible, irrespective of mode of proof of such document, production…
2022 CLC 2133 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
EXCELLENT SECURITY LIMITED VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Ministry of Finance, Finance Division, Islamabad art.199---Constitutional petition---Maintainability---Scope---Private entity---Where a Bank, after its privatization, wa…
2022 PLD 233 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ABDUL REHMAN VS State Policing powers---Principle---Whenever policing powers are conferred on any agency constituted under a special law, such power can be exercised by concerned agency only in relation to the functions assigned to them und…
2022 PLD 233 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ABDUL REHMAN VS State S.21(2)---Words "before or immediately" and "forthwith"---Effect---Use of words/phrases "before or immediately" and "forthwith" in S.21(2) of Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997, have made the provision as compuls…
2022 PLD 233 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ABDUL REHMAN VS State R. 24.5(1)---First Information Report register---Use of computer---Effect---Computer in police station cannot be treated as a "printed book in Form 24.5 (1) of Police Rules, 1934, consisting of 200 pages, nor anything…
2022 PLD 233 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ABDUL REHMAN VS State S. 25---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S.103---Mode of making search---Scope---Provisions of S. 103, Cr.P.C. have not been totally excluded from Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997---Only an exception has be…
2022 PLD 233 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ABDUL REHMAN VS State S.50---Prosecution, duty of---Counsel appointed by Pakistan Coast Guards---Scope---Lawyers representing Pakistan Coast Guards before Special Courts are not competent for trials of offences under Control of Narcotic Sub…
2022 PLD 233 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ABDUL REHMAN VS State Ss. 9(c), 21, 25 & 76---Pakistan Coast Guards Act (XVIII of 1973), Ss. 2 (i), 14 (2) & First Sched.----Notification S.R.O. No. 787(I)/2004, dated 16-09-2004---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S.103---Narcotic subst…
2022 PLD 260 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SHAHID HUSSAIN QURESHI VS PROVINCE OF SINDH through Chief Secretary arts. 187 & 199---Constitutional petition---Implementation of directions of Supreme Court---Petitioner sought implementation of directions of Supreme Court whereby it had d…
2022 PLD 20 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
KHALID ALI DARS VS PROVINCE OF SINDH S. 62-C(1)---Water course---Encroachment of amenity plot---Dispute was with regard to encroachment of land in question which was natural or carved out land for flow of rain/flood water---Validity---Land…
2022 PLD 264 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Mst. ASMA NADEEM VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN art. 9---Security of person---Missing persons---Scope---Right to life is the most precious of all Fundamental Rights of the citizens protected by the Constitution and it is the duty of the State to…
2022 PCrLJ 21 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ALLAH BACHAYO VS STATION HOUSE OFFICER, POLICE STATION MATLI Ss. 22-a, 22-B, 185 & 561-a---Inherent jurisdiction of High Court---Registration of criminal case---Territorial jurisdiction---Offence consisting of several acts--- applicant/comp…
2022 PCrLJ 65 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ANWAR ALI VS State Ss. 9(a)(v) & 14(c)---Assets beyond known sources of income---Presumption---Onus to prove---Accused is always presumed to be innocent and onus of proving commission of offence and guilt of accused lies on prosecution---Ex…
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