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2022 MLD 1013 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
QASIM ALI VS MANZOORAN BIBI Ss.42 & 54---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Art.129---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O.I, R.10---Suit for declaration and injunction---Mutation, assailing of---Revenue authorities, non-impleading of---Official…
2022 MLD 1013 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
QASIM ALI VS MANZOORAN BIBI Gender Parity Index---Scope---Ensuring economic safety for his daughters is not an option but a necessity for a father in a society such as ours which is ranked 153rd out of 156 countries on Gender Parity Index i…
2022 MLD 1030 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
NAZIR AHMAD VS State S.27---Manufacturing and selling spurious or unregistered drug---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Scope---Accusation levelled in the complaint was that Drug Inspector inspected the business premises of accu…
2022 MLD 1046 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
TAMOOR AHMAD VS State S.221---Charge to state offence---Object of framing charge---Scope---Whole object of framing charge is to enable the accused to know that what is precise accusation against him and concentrate his attention on the case…
2022 MLD 1046 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
TAMOOR AHMAD VS State S.221---Charge to state offence---Scope---Charge shall state the offence with which the accused is charged and the "law and section of law" against which the offence is said to have been committed shall be mentioned in…
2022 MLD 1046 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
TAMOOR AHMAD VS State S.265-D---When charge is to be framed---Scope---Charge is framed by Trial Court after perusing the police report or complaint, all other documents and statements filed by the prosecution.
2022 MLD 1059 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD.ZAMEER VS State S.498---Pre-arrest bail---Scope---If an accused person has a good case for post-arrest bail, mere at the wish of complainant, he cannot be sent behind the bars for few days by dismissing his application for pre-arre…
2022 MLD 1059 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD.ZAMEER VS State S.498---Pre-arrest bail---Scope---Mala fide or ulterior motive of the complainant and police cannot be proved in every case, however, these grounds can be gathered from the facts and circumstances of the case.
2022 MLD 1059 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD.ZAMEER VS State S.498---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 337-A(i), 354, 452 & 34---Shajjah-i-khafifah, assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty, house-trespass after preparation for hurt, assault or wrongf…
2022 MLD 1081 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Ch. MUHAMMAD SADDIQUE VS The SECRETARY COOPERATIVE audi alteram partem---Scope---Requirement of audi alteram partem is not confined to proceedings before Courts but it extends to all proceedings by whomsoever held, which may affect a person…
2022 MLD 1081 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Ch. MUHAMMAD SADDIQUE VS The SECRETARY COOPERATIVE Principles of natural justice must be read into each and every statute unless and until it is prohibited by the statute itself---Even if there is no provision as to issuance of notice of pe…
2022 MLD 1081 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Ch. MUHAMMAD SADDIQUE VS The SECRETARY COOPERATIVE art.199---Constitutional jurisdiction---Scope---article 199 of the Constitution mandates that High Court on the application of any aggrieved person can make an order or give such directions…
2022 MLD 1081 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Ch. MUHAMMAD SADDIQUE VS The SECRETARY COOPERATIVE Principles of natural justice require that the aggrieved party be provided an opportunity of hearing and in all proceedings by whomsoever held, whether judicial or administrative, the princ…
2022 MLD 1081 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Ch. MUHAMMAD SADDIQUE VS The SECRETARY COOPERATIVE arts.199, 10-a, 23 & 24---Co-operative Societies act (VII of 1925), S.17-B---Constitutional petition---Right to fair trial---Provision as to property---Protection of property rights---Expul…
2022 MLD 1091 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ZEESHAN ANJUM VS State S.462-O---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S.195---Offences relating to electricity---Cognizance---Scope---S.462-O of P.P.C. when juxtaposed with S.195 of Cr.P.C. transpires that under S.195 of Cr.P.C., court shal…
2022 MLD 1091 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ZEESHAN ANJUM VS State S.498---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), S. 462-I---Abstraction or tampering, with distribution or auxiliary---Pre-arrest bail, grant of---Delayed FIR---Further inquiry---Mala fide of complainant---Scope---Accused was charge…
2022 MLD 1091 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ZEESHAN ANJUM VS State Chap. XVII-B [Ss. 462-G to 462-P]---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S.154---Offences relating to electricity---Information in cognizable cases---Registration of FIR---Scope---Registration of FIR for offences unde…
2022 MLD 1091 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ZEESHAN ANJUM VS State Chap. XVII-B [Ss. 462-G to 462-P]---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S.154---Offences relating to electricity---Information in cognizable cases---Registration of FIR---Scope---Chapter XVII-B was inserted in Penal…
2022 CLC 1261 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Malik GULL ZAMAN VS DEPUTY COMMISSIONER art.10a---Due process---Fair opportunity to hearing---Notice---Scope---Contention on behalf of the authority was that prior to sealing, notices were given---Simple notice could not meet with the princ…
2022 CLC 1261 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Malik GULL ZAMAN VS DEPUTY COMMISSIONER S.284---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts.4, 9, 18, 23 & 24---Sealing a premises not having sanctioned site plan---Power of sealing the property without satisfying the conditions as provided in S.284 of…
2022 CLC 1261 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Malik GULL ZAMAN VS DEPUTY COMMISSIONER S.284 & 5th Schd., item No.62---Erection/re-erection of a building without approval of the site/building plan---Petitioner failed to provide copy of the sanction site plan---Chief Officer, Town Commit…
2022 CLC 1261 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Malik GULL ZAMAN VS DEPUTY COMMISSIONER S.24a---Speaking order---Scope---Observation/comments "allowed as rules as per law" could, by no stretch of imagination, be called as an order and if it was presumed as an order then it did not qualif…
2022 CLC 1261 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Malik GULL ZAMAN VS DEPUTY COMMISSIONER Discretionary Powers---Scope---Discretionary decision should be made according to rational reasons, otherwise the decision would be arbitrary and might be considered misuse of power.
2022 CLC 1261 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Malik GULL ZAMAN VS DEPUTY COMMISSIONER art.199---Constitutional jurisdiction---No adequate/efficacious remedy---Scope---Mere fact that the alternative remedy of appeal was available to the parties, did not bar the jurisdiction of High Cour…
2022 MLD 1112 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. ANWAR MAI VS GHULAM SARWAR Preamble---Contradictory evidence---Scope---Contradiction is the act of saying something that is opposite/different in meaning to something else that is said earlier and the same come in the way of inspiring…
2022 MLD 1112 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mst. ANWAR MAI VS GHULAM SARWAR art.120---Mutation, cancellation of---Maxim "allegans contraria non est audiendus (a person who alleges things contradictory to each other is not to be heard)---First suit for declaration and in alternate the…
2022 MLD 1129 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD FAROOQ VS MEMBER (JUDICIAL-II) BOARD OF REVENUE, PUNJAB LAHORE arts.23, 24 & 201---Constitutional petition---allotment of government land, resumption of---Revenue hierarchy---Land in question was allotted to the predecessor of peti…
2022 MLD 1138 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
PROVINCE OF PUNJAB through Additional District Collector, Jhang VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE, JHANG S.20---Colonization of Government Lands (Punjab) Act (V of 1912), S.24---Constitution of Pakistan, Art.199---Constitutional petition---Appli…
2022 MLD 1138 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
PROVINCE OF PUNJAB through Additional District Collector, Jhang VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE, JHANG S.24---Power of imposing penalties for breach of conditions---Scope---Section 24 of Colonization of Government Lands (Punjab) Act, 1912, emp…
2022 MLD 1158 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SUI NORTHERN GAS PIPELINES LTD. VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of Energy (Petroleum Division) Principle---In order to achieve goal of non-arbitrary agency decision making, agencies must supply standards that disciplin…
2022 MLD 1158 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SUI NORTHERN GAS PIPELINES LTD. VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of Energy (Petroleum Division) art.199---administrative arbitrariness---Legitimate expectancy, principle of---Past practice---Deviation without notice---P…
2022 MLD 1179 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SUPERIOR CONNECTIONS (PVT.) LIMITED VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination Ss.37 & 47---Public Procurement Regulatory Authority Ordinance (XXII of 2002), Ss.5(2) & 16(1)---Altern…
2022 MLD 1179 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SUPERIOR CONNECTIONS (PVT.) LIMITED VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination S.8 & Preamble---Pakistan Medical Commission---Functions and duties---Regulatory statutes---Scope---Pro…
2022 MLD 1179 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SUPERIOR CONNECTIONS (PVT.) LIMITED VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Ministry of National Health Services, Regulations and Coordination Tribunals---Jurisdiction---Tribunals created under their respective special laws possess limited jurisd…
2022 MLD 1195 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
LIAQAT ALI VS DISTRICT COLLECTOR, GUJRAT S.3---Intra court Appeal before High Court----Scope---Original Order---Scope---Application before High Court where law provided appeal/review/revision against original order---Non-availability of app…
2022 MLD 1195 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
LIAQAT ALI VS DISTRICT COLLECTOR, GUJRAT S.54---Land acquired for public purpose---Admittedly the notifications were issued in the proceedings under Ss. 4, 6 & 17(4) of Land Requisition Act, 1894, in which right of appeal was provided under…
2022 MLD 1195 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
LIAQAT ALI VS DISTRICT COLLECTOR, GUJRAT Preamble---Law Reforms Ordinance (XII of 1972), S.3---Non availability of appeal---Order by Tribunal---"Original order"---Scope---"Original order" in S. 3(2) of the Law Reforms Ordinance, 1972, was u…
2022 MLD 1203 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ASHIQ MUHAMMAD (DECEASED) VS MUHAMMAD USMAN (DECEASED) act of Court, omission or neglect---No person should suffer for the act/omission/neglect of the court or its officials, act of court should not prejudice anyone.
2022 MLD 1203 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ASHIQ MUHAMMAD (DECEASED) VS MUHAMMAD USMAN (DECEASED) O.XX, R.7---Compromise decree---application for preparation of decree sheet was concurrently dismissed on ground that the same was moved after lapse of 6 years without any logical reaso…
2022 MLD 1203 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ASHIQ MUHAMMAD (DECEASED) VS MUHAMMAD USMAN (DECEASED) Technicalities, not to defeat justice---Mere technicalities could not defeat the rights of any person---Although certain technicalities of law, where right is vested in the opposite par…
2022 MLD 1216 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
GHULAM MUHAMMAD & SONS VS WATER AND SANITATION AGENCY (WASA), FAISALABAD R.56---Public procurement---Procurement agency sought declaration of invalidity of bid---Claim of additional performance security---Scope---Petitioners were successful…
2022 MLD 1248 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
RIZWAN BAIG RUBI VS KHURRAM SHAHZAD Ss.3, 5 & 19---Contempt of court---Contempt proceedings---Nature of---Presumption attached to orders of Superior Courts---Discretion of Court with regard to initiation and continuation of contempt proceed…
2022 MLD 1267 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SHEERAZ KHAN VS DEPUTY COMMISSIONER, CHAKWAL Ss.13 & 16---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts. 9, 15, 16 & 199---Constitutional jurisdiction---Scope---Policy matters---Calamity affected area---COVID-19, control, spreading of---Petitioners challe…
2022 MLD 1267 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
SHEERAZ KHAN VS DEPUTY COMMISSIONER, CHAKWAL art.199---Constitutional petition---Constitutional jurisdiction, discretionary in nature---Scope---Policy matters---Policy making domain though rested with the executive but it could not be unbri…
2022 CLC 1296 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
AHMAD ABBAS VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE S.47, O.XIII, R.10---Questions to be determined by the Court executing decree---Rented premises---Ejectment petition---Partition of Joint Khata---Demarcation of property---Scope---Petitioner assailed…
2022 MLD 1280 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mian MUHAMMAD ARSHAD VS SABA GUL Preamble---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), preamble---Proceeding---Scope---"Proceeding" was not defined in the Family Courts Act, 1964, as well as Civil procedure Code, 1908---Proceeding included all possi…
2022 MLD 1280 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mian MUHAMMAD ARSHAD VS SABA GUL Ss.13 & 25-a---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), S.39 & O.XXI, R.5---Decree of maintenance allowance and dowry articles---Execution proceedings, transfer of---Power to transfer execution proceedings outside…
2022 MLD 1280 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Mian MUHAMMAD ARSHAD VS SABA GUL Ss.13, 17 & 25-a---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), preamble---Decree of maintenance allowance and dowry articles---Execution proceedings, Transfer of-Power to transfer proceedings outside the district---Ju…
2022 MLD 1310 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ABID alias Chirri VS State S.497---Control of Narcotic Substances Act (XXV of 1997), S.9(b)---Possession of narcotics---Bail, grant of---Accused was a previous convict---Scope---Accused was alleged to have been found in possession of 510 gr…
2022 MLD 1331 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD SHAHID YOUSAF VS State S.133---Order of examinations---Cross-examination---Absence of counsel---Cross-examination by accused---Scope---Where accused had not produced his counsel for cross-examination of prosecution witnesses, then…
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