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2022 PTD 1844 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
The COMMISSIONER INLAND REVENUE ZONE-I, REGIONAL TAX OFFICE, QUETTA VS QUETTA ELECTRIC SUPPLY COMPANY LIMITED, QUETTA Ss.113, 133, Second Schedule Part I clause (102A) & Part IV---Regulation of Generation, Transmission and Distribution of E…
2022 PTD 1889 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
COMMISSIONER INLAND REVENUE ZONE-I REGIONAL TAX OFFICE, QUETTA VS BALOCHISTAN ONYX DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION LTD. Ss.122 & 133---audit, selection for---Definite information---Pre-condition---Case of respondent/taxpayer was selected for audit…
2022 PLD 58 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
Dr. ILYAS VS GOVERNMENT OF BALOCHISTAN arts. 48 & 105---advice of Prime Minister and Chief Minister---Strict construction---Scope---Except otherwise so provided under the Constitution, the President and Governor are bound by the advice tend…
2022 PLD 58 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
Dr. ILYAS VS GOVERNMENT OF BALOCHISTAN S. 15---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 105---Vires of S.15, Bolan University of Medical and Health Sciences Act, 2017---Vice-Chancellor---Appointment by Governor/ Chancellor without advice by Governmen…
2022 PLD 58 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
Dr. ILYAS VS GOVERNMENT OF BALOCHISTAN Fourth Schedule, Part II, Entry No. 12---Standards in institutions for higher education and research, scientific and technical institutions---Before the 18th Amendment, education as a subject was place…
2022 PLD 66 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
KAZIM ALI VS ISHAQ ALI O. VII, R. 11---Rejection of plaint---Scope---If from the statement of the plaintiff, the suit appears to be barred by limitation, the plaint shall have to be rejected under O. VII, R. 11, C.P.C.
2022 PLD 66 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
KAZIM ALI VS ISHAQ ALI O. XXIII, R. 1---Withdrawal of suit or abandonment of part of claim---Scope---Order XXIII, R. 1(3), C.P.C. provides that where the plaintiff as against all or any of the defendants withdraws a suit or abandons a part…
2022 PLD 66 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
KAZIM ALI VS ISHAQ ALI S. 3---Defamation---Limitation---Scope---Defamation Ordinance, 2002, is a special law which has prescribed limitation for filing suit for defamation and Limitation Act, 1908, does not apply to the actions brought unde…
2022 PLD 66 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
KAZIM ALI VS ISHAQ ALI S. 8---Notice of action---Limitation---Scope---Plaintiff, within two months after publication of defamatory matter having come to his notice or knowledge, shall give fourteen days' notice in writing of his intention t…
2022 PLD 66 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
KAZIM ALI VS ISHAQ ALI O. VII, R. 11---Rejection of plaint---Scope---Only plaint and its accompaniments can be examined for deciding the question of rejection of plaint.
2022 PLD 66 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
KAZIM ALI VS ISHAQ ALI Ss. 3 & 8---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O. VII, R. 11 & O.XXIII, R. 1---Defamation---Notice of action---Rejection of plaint---Withdrawal of earlier suit---Limitation---Scope---Appellant assailed the rejection of…
2022 PLD 66 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
KAZIM ALI VS ISHAQ ALI S. 3---Dismissal of suit, etc., instituted after period of limitation---Scope---Provisions of S. 3 of Limitation Act, 1908, are mandatory in nature---Every suit instituted after the period of limitation shall, subject…
2022 PLD 73 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
FATIMA VS NATIONAL DATABASE AND REGISTRATION AUTHORITY arts. 132 & 133---Cross-examination---Unchallenged portion of statement of witness---Evidentiary value---Scope---Where the statement of a witness goes unchallenged, it is presumed to be…
2022 PLD 73 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
FATIMA VS NATIONAL DATABASE AND REGISTRATION AUTHORITY S. 10---National Identity Card---Blockage of National Identity Card (CNIC)---Opportunity of hearing---Burden of proof---Scope---Plaintiff obtained manual national identity card and ther…
2022 PLD 73 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
FATIMA VS NATIONAL DATABASE AND REGISTRATION AUTHORITY No one can be condemned unheard.
2022 PLD 73 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
FATIMA VS NATIONAL DATABASE AND REGISTRATION AUTHORITY S. 10---Constitution of Pakistan, Part II, Chap. 1 [Arts. 8 to 28]---National Identity Card---Fundamental rights---Blockage of National Identity Card (CNIC)---Effect---Blockage of CNIC…
2022 PLD 73 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
FATIMA VS NATIONAL DATABASE AND REGISTRATION AUTHORITY Document cannot be refuted by verbal assertion.
2022 PLD 1 SUPREME-COURT
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Ministry of Education art. 184(3)---Matter regarding reconstruction and restoration of Samadhi (shrine) of a Hindu saint in the Teri village---Costs incurred by the Provi…
2022 PLD 64 SUPREME-COURT
HADAYAT ULLAH VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN Scope---Parliamentary sovereignty or legislative supremacy was the cornerstone of a strong democracy---Courts must, therefore, recognize the central role of the legislature---Undermining the legislatu…
2022 PLD 64 SUPREME-COURT
HADAYAT ULLAH VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN Ss. 2(d) & 4 & Preamble---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts. 4, 8, 9, 18, 25, 184(3) & 187---Sacked Employees (Re-instatement) Act, 2010, ('Act of 2010'), vires of---Said Act of 2010 was violative of, in…
2022 PLD 64 SUPREME-COURT
HADAYAT ULLAH VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN Ss. 2(f)(vi), 4(a), 10, 11, 12 & 13 & Preamble---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts. 4, 9 & 25---Sacked Employees (Re-instatement) Act, 2010, ('Act of 2010'), vires of---By way of judgment under review th…
2022 SCMR 2001 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD ALI VS SAMINA QASIM TARAR Ss. 405 & 406---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 154---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Criminal breach of trust---First Information Report (FIR) quashed by High Court in its Constitutional juri…
2022 SCMR 2001 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD ALI VS SAMINA QASIM TARAR Ss. 405 & 406--- Criminal breach of trust--- Expressions 'entrustment' and 'trust' used in section 405, P.P.C.---Scope---Expression "entrustment" with the property or with any domain over the property has…
2022 SCMR 2001 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD ALI VS SAMINA QASIM TARAR Pursuing concurrent remedies under civil and criminal law---Permissibility---Remedy (for the same cause) can be pursued both under the criminal law and civil law in diverse situations---Although they plain…
2022 SCMR 2006 SUPREME-COURT
ZAFAR IQBAL VS NASEER AHMED S. 100---Second appeal---Scope of jurisdiction of High Courts in second appeal under section 100, C.P.C. and of the expression "contrary to law" used therein stated.
2022 SCMR 2012 SUPREME-COURT
SABTAIN HAIDER VS State Ss. 302(b) & 302(c)---Qatl-i-amd---Reappraisal of evidence---Murder of sister's alleged paramour committed under the impulses of 'ghairat' and grave and sudden provocation---Diminished liability---Conviction under se…
2022 SCMR 2012 SUPREME-COURT
SABTAIN HAIDER VS State S. 302(b)---Qatl-i-amd---Prosecution witness related to the deceased, testimony of---Mere relationship of the prosecution witnesses with the deceased cannot be a ground to discard the testimony of such witnesses unle…
2022 SCMR 2012 SUPREME-COURT
SABTAIN HAIDER VS State S. 302(c)---Qatl-i-amd---Reappraisal of evidence---Both witnesses of the ocular account were subjected to lengthy cross-examination by the defence but nothing favourable to the accused or adverse to the prosecution c…
2022 SCMR 2012 SUPREME-COURT
SABTAIN HAIDER VS State S. 302(c)---Qatl-i-amd---Diminished liability, doctrine of---Scope---Diminished liability is a legal doctrine that absolves an accused person of part of the liability for his criminal act if he suffers from such stat…
2022 SCMR 2012 SUPREME-COURT
SABTAIN HAIDER VS State S. 302(b)---Qatl-i-amd---Recovery of weapon---Scope---Recovery of weapon of offence is inconsequential where neither the crime empty nor the weapon is sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory.
2022 SCMR 2020 SUPREME-COURT
FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of National Health Services VS JAHANZEB Move-over policy---Scope---Move-over cannot be construed as promotion to the post of higher Basic Pay Scale, but the higher pay scale is treated to b…
2022 SCMR 2020 SUPREME-COURT
FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of National Health Services VS JAHANZEB F.R. 17---Proforma promotion---Scope---If a person is not considered due to any administrative slip-up, error or delay when the right to be considere…
2022 SCMR 2024 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD ALI VS State art. 22---Test identification parade---Scope---Identification parade looses its strength if the accused persons are identified during the course of proceedings before the Trial Court.
2022 SCMR 2024 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD ALI VS State Ss. 391 & 396---Dacoity, dacoity with murder---Liability of all co-convicts same as that of the actual murderer---Section 396, P.P.C. in its plain term applies to every situation in which five or more persons commit da…
2022 SCMR 2024 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD ALI VS State Ss. 396, 460 & 337-a(ii)---Dacoity with murder---Reappraisal of evidence---Both the witnesses of the ocular account remained consistent on each and every material point qua the date, time, mode, manner of the occurrenc…
2022 SCMR 2024 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD ALI VS State Minor discrepancies in the prosecution case---Effect---Such discrepancies do not frustrate the prosecution case unless and until there is something which directly shatters the salient features of the prosecution case.
2022 SCMR 2034 SUPREME-COURT
ASADULLAH KHAN VS MUSLIM COMMERCIAL BANK LTD. arts. 185(2)(d), 185(2)(e) & 185(3)---Civil appeal filed under article 185(2)(d) of the Constitution challenging only one portion of the judgment of the High Court and not challenging the other…
2022 SCMR 2034 SUPREME-COURT
ASADULLAH KHAN VS MUSLIM COMMERCIAL BANK LTD. Judgment of court below 'varied', 'upheld'or 'set-aside'---Meaning---If a judgment is to change or alter or modify the ruling of the court below, it would be said that the judgment has varied th…
2022 SCMR 2040 SUPREME-COURT
Malik MUHAMMAD TAHIR VS State S. 497--- Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 420, 468, 471, 406 & 489-F---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 185(3)---Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property, forgery for purpose of cheating, using as gen…
2022 SCMR 2044 SUPREME-COURT
EDEN BUILDERS (PVT.) LIMITED, LAHORE VS MUHAMMAD ASLAM Parties cannot by agreement confer jurisdiction upon any court when otherwise the court has no jurisdiction.
2022 SCMR 2044 SUPREME-COURT
EDEN BUILDERS (PVT.) LIMITED, LAHORE VS MUHAMMAD ASLAM Ss. 16, 17 & O. VII, R. 10---Clause of agreement grating exclusive jurisdiction to Civil Courts in place "L"---Plaintiffs filing suit for cancellation of agreement in Civil Court of pla…
2022 SCMR 2044 SUPREME-COURT
EDEN BUILDERS (PVT.) LIMITED, LAHORE VS MUHAMMAD ASLAM Ss. 16 & 17---Jurisdiction of Civil Court---agreement between parties granting exclusive jurisdiction to Civil Courts of a particular place/city---Legality---Parties cannot be restraine…
2022 SCMR 2047 SUPREME-COURT
ABDUL REHMAN VS SECRETARY, MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATION Deputationist---Special allowance of one month's pay admissible to regular employees---Whether deputationists were also entitled to such special allowance---Held, that petitioners were no…
2022 SCMR 2050 SUPREME-COURT
ALI BUX SHAIKH VS The CHIEF SECRETARY, GOVERNMENT OF SINDH, KARACHI R. 12-a---Date of birth of civil servant recorded at the time of joining Government service---Interpolations---Inquiry by competent authority---Rule 12-a of the Sindh Civil…
2022 SCMR 2055 SUPREME-COURT
ATIF ALI VS ABDUL BASIT O. XXIII, R. 8, first and second proviso---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 498---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 185(3)--- Criminal petition filed before the Supreme Court challenging order of High Court where…
2022 SCMR 2058 SUPREME-COURT
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, PESHAWAR ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY (PEPCO) VS SAJEEDA BEGUM S. 3---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts. 199 & 212---Constitutional jurisdiction of High Court---Scope---Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA)---Wid…
2022 SCMR 2058 SUPREME-COURT
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, PESHAWAR ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY (PEPCO) VS SAJEEDA BEGUM art. 199--- Constitutional jurisdiction of High Court---Scope---Peshawar Electric Supply Company (PESCO)---Widow of deceased employee of PESCO filed a con…
2022 SCMR 2058 SUPREME-COURT
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, PESHAWAR ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY (PEPCO) VS SAJEEDA BEGUM S. 3---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Water and Power Development Authority (WAPDA)---Widow of deceased employee of WAPDA filed a constitutional pet…
2022 SCMR 2058 SUPREME-COURT
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, PESHAWAR ELECTRIC AND POWER COMPANY (PEPCO) VS SAJEEDA BEGUM art. 199---Companies Ordinance (XLVII of 1984), S. 7(1) [since repealed]---Territorial jurisdiction of Islamabad High Court---Scope---Peshawar Electric Su…
2022 SCMR 2068 SUPREME-COURT
NAEEM QADIR SHEIKH VS State S. 498---Pre-arrest bail---Merits of the case---While granting pre-arrest bail, the merits of the case can be touched upon by the Court.
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