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2022 SCMR 752 SUPREME-COURT
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION, (WHO), ISLAMABAD VS MUHAMMAD ANSAR IQBAL S. 4---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 201---Incorrect application of law by the High Court in its judgment---No precedential value of such judgment---World Health Organizat…
2022 SCMR 754 SUPREME-COURT
ZILLA MUHAMMAD VS KIFAYAT ALI S. 13(2)---Suit for possession through pre-emption---Performance of Talb-i-muwathibat doubtful---According to the informant he acquired knowledge about the first two sales at 11:00 a.m. in the village and went…
2022 SCMR 757 SUPREME-COURT
COMMISSIONER INLAND REVENUE, ZONE-I, LAHORE VS PAK ELEKTRON LTD. S. 4---Electricity meters---Equipment eligible for zero rating of sales tax under SRO No. 530(I)/2005 dated 6-6-2005 ('the SRO')---Plea by tax department that electricity mete…
2022 SCMR 759 SUPREME-COURT
PROVINCE OF PUNJAB through DO(R) Sheikhupura VS JAVED AKBAR S. 42---Suit for declaration---Scope---Courts can issue declarations relating to existing rights and cannot create fresh/new rights in favour of either party. Head NotesCase Descri…
2022 SCMR 765 SUPREME-COURT
NAUBAHAR BOTTLING COMPANY (PVT.) LIMITED VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Revenue Division Ministry of Finance Levy of tax---Scope---Measure of a tax must have a reasonable nexus with it, the subject matter, and that a tax cannot be levied…
2022 SCMR 778 SUPREME-COURT
Syed ATHAR HUSSAIN SHAH VS Haji MUHAMMAD RIAZ S. 9, First Sched., arts. 91, 113 & 120---Specific Relief act (I of 1877), Ss. 12, 39 & 42---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O.XXIII, R. 2---Transfer of Property act (IV of 1882), S. 53-a---Su…
2022 SCMR 785 SUPREME-COURT
NIAMATULLAH KHAN VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN S. 182--- Power of attorney---Interpretation---authority of attorney/ agent---Scope---Power of attorney must be strictly construed and proved, and must be strictly interpreted to ascertain the auth…
2022 SCMR 797 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD AMJAD VS The DIRECTOR GENERAL, QUETTA DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY 'Upgradation of post'---Scope---Upgradation cannot be made to benefit a particular individual in terms of promoting him to a higher post or further providing him with the…
2022 SCMR 806 SUPREME-COURT
Sardar MUHAMMAD KAMAL-UD-DIN KHAN VS Syed MUNIR SYED S. 115---Revision petition---Scope---No right of appeal provided---Not necessary that whenever an appeal is not provided for a revision would lie---Revision can only be filed if the order…
2022 SCMR 815 SUPREME-COURT
DIVISIONAL ACCOUNTS OFFICER, PAKISTAN RAILWAYS, RAWALPINDI VS MUHAMMAD YASEEN (DECEASED) Medical allowance for pensioners---Employee of Pakistan Railways allowed move over to BS-16 claiming benefit of medical allowance for BS-15 employees o…
2022 SCMR 819 SUPREME-COURT
ABDUL GHAFOOR VS The STATE S. 9(c)---Possession and transportation of 500 kilograms of cannabis---Reappraisal of evidence---Safe transmission of samples to office of Chemical Examiner not established---Heinousness of the charge and huge qua…
2022 SCMR 821 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD KASHIF IQBAL VS State Ss. 498 & 497(2)---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 185(3)---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 420, 468 & 471---Using forged signatures on a cheque---Ad interim pre-arrest bail, confirmation of---Further inquiry---A…
2022 SCMR 824 SUPREME-COURT
PAKISTAN WATER AND POWER DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY (WAPDA), WAPDA HOUSE, LAHORE VS The COMMISSIONER INLAND REVENUE S. 122a---Income Tax Ordinance (XXXI of 1979) [since repealed], S. 138---Constitution of Pakistan, art. 199---Order in revision m…
2022 SCMR 828 SUPREME-COURT
KASHIF alias WAJID alias WAJU VS State S. 497(2)---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), S. 302(b)---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 185(3)---Murderous assault---Bail, grant of---Further inquiry---Prosecution case initially set up in the crime report by…
2022 SCMR 830 SUPREME-COURT
PROVINCE OF PUNJAB through Secretary Housing and Physical Planning Department, Government of the Punjab, Lahore VS Syed ZIA UL HASSAN ZAIDI S. 4(1)---acquisition proceedings---Publication of notification in Official Gazette---Mandatory requ…
2022 SCMR 840 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD YOUSAF VS State S. 497---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 185(3)---Control of Narcotic Substances Act (XXV of 1997), Ss. 9(c) & 51---Recovery of 56.4 kgs of cannabis concealed in cavities of a truck---Bail, refusal of---Considerable…
2022 SCMR 842 SUPREME-COURT
ABDUL AZIZ VS ABDUL HAMEED (DECEASED) art. 72---Contents of document---Proof---article 72 of Qanun-e-Shahadat Order, 1984 provides that contents of documents may be proved either by primary or secondary evidence---Best evidence about the co…
2022 SCMR 849 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD AURANGZEB VS KARIM KHAN alias ABDUL KARIM KHAN S. 497---Bail---Discretionary relief---Scope---Grant of bail is a discretionary relief, however, it is most essential that exercise of discretion is structured upon sound judicial prin…
2022 SCMR 852 SUPREME-COURT
Rana MUHAMMAD HANIF KHAN (DECEASED) VS SADDIQ KHAN (DECEASED) Ss. 16 & 20---Suit for recovery of compensation/damages---Ouster of jurisdiction of Civil Courts in Pakistan---Plaintiffs-appellants had admitted in the plaint that the property…
2022 SCMR 859 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD IQBAL VS MATI UR REHMAN Ss. 9, 42 & 54---Suit for possession and permanent injunction---Maintainability---Dispute over ownership of property---Plaintiffs and defendant both claiming title to disputed property---In such circumstance…
2022 SCMR 864 SUPREME-COURT
ZAFAR KHAN VS State S. 9(c)--- Possession and transportation of 25 kilograms of cannabis---Reappraisal of evidence---Recovery memo, witness of---Doubtful and contradictory testimony---Complainant (police official) when appearing as a prosec…
2022 SCMR 870 SUPREME-COURT
Mst. BIBI FATIMA VS MUHAMMAD SARWAR S. 5---Suit for possession through pre-emption---Right of pre-emption---In a suit for pre-emption, plaintiff is required to prove his right of pre-emption at the time of sale of land, at the time of filin…
2022 SCMR 877 SUPREME-COURT
INTELLIGENCE BUREAU EMPLOYEES COOPERATIVE HOUSING SOCIETY VS SHABBIR HUSSAIN S. 41---Transfer by ostensible owner---Protection for transferee under section 41 of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882---Scope and pre-requisites---Section 41 of…
2022 SCMR 885 SUPREME-COURT
Major (R) MUHAMMAD IFTIKHAR KHAN VS The STATE S. 497(1), third proviso---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 324, 429, 148, 149, 337-D & 337-F(v)---Murderous assault---Bail, refusal of---Delay in conclusion of the trial attributable to the accuse…
2022 SCMR 888 SUPREME-COURT
ROOH ULLAH VS State Ss. 302(b) & 324---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd---Reappraisal of evidence---Statements of eye-witnesses that included an injured were in comfortable unison both on the salient features of the case as well as…
2022 SCMR 890 SUPREME-COURT
Syeda NASREEN ZOHRA (DECEASED) VS GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB through Secretary Communication and Works Department, Lahore Ss. 31 & 34---Compensation not paid or deposited in Court---Compound interest, payment of---Scope---Compound interest wo…
2022 SCMR 897 SUPREME-COURT
PROVINCE OF PUNJAB through Chief Secretary, Lahore VS Prof. Dr. JAVED IQBAL Contractual employees--- Regularization in service--- Scope---Regularization takes effect prospectively, from the date when a regularization order is passed---In th…
2022 SCMR 905 SUPREME-COURT
FAISAL SHAHZAD VS State S. 9---Narcotic cases---Conviction---Scope---When the prosecution is able to prove its case on its salient features then un-necessary technicalities should not be allowed to hamper the very purpose of the law on the…
2022 SCMR 912 SUPREME-COURT
CHAIRMAN, FEDERAL BOARD OF INTERMEDIATE AND SECONDARY EDUCATION VS KUMAIL KHAN S. 42---Suit for declaration seeking change in date of birth---Preference given to date of birth recorded in matriculation certificate--- First document on recor…
2022 SCMR 915 SUPREME-COURT
ASHFAQUE alias SHAKA VS State Ss. 302(b) & 324---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd---Reappraisal of evidence---Prosecution case vis-Ã -vis the accused was firmly structured on the foundations un-trembled by the defection of an injure…
2022 SCMR 918 SUPREME-COURT
Mst. NOOR JEHAN VS SALEEM SHAHADAT S. 12---Suit for specific performance of an agreement to sell immoveable property---Vendor refusing to accept the sale consideration amount from the vendee---In such circumstances, the vendee seeking speci…
2022 SCMR 929 SUPREME-COURT
Mst. KALSOOM BIBI VS MUHAMMAD AMIN AGHA (DECEASED) Claim---Pre-requisites---For claiming an adverse possession a party claiming adverse possession admits the ownership of other side, but on the basis of long uninterrupted hostile possession…
2022 SCMR 933 SUPREME-COURT
KHUDADAD VS Syed GHAZANFAR ALI SHAH alias S. INAAM HUSSAIN art. 79---attestation of a document---Scope---attesting witnesses---Fundamental and elemental condition of valid attestation of a document is that two or more witnesses signed the i…
2022 SCMR 946 SUPREME-COURT
Mst. LUBNA BIBI VS AZHAR JAVED ABBASI Ss. 497(5) & 498---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 185(3)---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 337-A(ii), 337-A(iv), 147 & 149---Shajjah-i-mudihah, shajjah-i-munaqqillah, rioting, unlawful assembly---Petition…
2022 SCMR 951 SUPREME-COURT
SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT OF THE PUNJAB, SCHOOL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, LAHORE VS Syed ZAKIR ALI Ss. 4(1)(b)(vi) & 7---Wilful absence from duty---Dismissal from service---Inquiry---In cases where willful absence from duty is an admitted fact, n…
2022 SCMR 955 SUPREME-COURT
WAQAS NAZIR VS State S. 497---anti-Terrorism act (XXVII of 1997), S. 7---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), S. 337-a(i)---Firing and destruction of property within District Court Complex---Bail, refusal of---admittedly on the day of the event large…
2022 SCMR 958 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD ARIF CHATTHA VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE, GUJRANWALA S. 48---Second execution application/petition, filing of---Limitation period, commencement of---If a decree, sought to be executed, is conditional, specifying the date for perfo…
2022 SCMR 964 SUPREME-COURT
DEPUTY COMMISSIONER UPPER DIR VS Mst. NUSRAT BEGUM Time bound projects---Contractual employee---Regularization in service---Employees of time bound projects have no automatic right of regularization. Head NotesCase Description Citation Name…
2022 SCMR 970 SUPREME-COURT
ALI ASGHAR VS State S. 497(2)---Prevention of Electronic Crimes act (XL of 2016), Ss. 9 & 10---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 109 & 419---Constitution of Pakistan, art. 185(3)---Inciting the general public against the victim by posting fake…
2022 SCMR 973 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD IFTIKHAR VS State S. 302(b)---Qatl-i-amd---Reappraisal of evidence---Possibility of suicide---Complainant was not an eye-witness of the crime nor anyone else came forward to disclose the circumstances leading to the unnatural death…
2022 SCMR 976 SUPREME-COURT
ZAFAR IQBAL VS State Diminished responsibility, concept of---Scope---If a crime is committed due to mental or psychological compulsion, it squarely falls within the ambit of "diminished liability"---Diminished responsibility is a legal doct…
2022 SCMR 979 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD MULTAZAM RAZA VS MUHAMMAD AYUB KHAN Ss. 17(4), 18 & 39---Trade Marks Ordinance (XIX of 2001), Ss. 24(5) & 40---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908). O. VII, R. 10---Co-ownership of trademark---Infringement of registered trademark---Pas…
2022 SCMR 986 SUPREME-COURT
BASHIR MUHAMMAD KHAN VS State S. 161---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), S. 302(b)---Qatl-i-amd---Delayed recording of statement of witness under section 161, Cr.P.C.---Effect---Such delay reduces value of the statement to nil unless and until it i…
2022 SCMR 991 SUPREME-COURT
PAKISTAN ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY VS Syed SALAHUDDIN art. 199--- Constitutional jurisdiction of the High Court---Scope---Employees of a Government Corporation---Non-statutory rules of service---Constitutional jurisdiction of High Court barred…
2022 SCMR 998 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD SAMIULLAH VS State art. 84---Power of Trial Court to compare signatures on disputed documents---Scope---article 84 of the Qanun-e-Shahadat, 1984 empowers the Courts to compare the disputed signatures in order to ascertain whether t…
2022 SCMR 1002 SUPREME-COURT
NOOR ZAMAN VS State Inconsequential lapse or failure on part of prosecution to observe a procedural formality---Where such lapse or failure did not cause prejudice or handicap to an accused in his defence, the same cannot be allowed to deny…
2022 SCMR 1006 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD SHOAIB VS State S. 9(c)---Possession and transportation of narcotics---Reappraisal of evidence---Safe custody and safe transmission of samples to the Forensic Science Laboratory not established---Benefit of doubt---Police official/…
2022 SCMR 1009 SUPREME-COURT
Mst. RABIA GULA VS MUHAMMAD JANAN S. 18 & First Sched., art. 120---Specific Relief act (I of 1877), S. 42---Gift mutation---Suit for declaration challenging a gift mutation on grounds of fraud---Limitation period, commencement of---Scope---…
2022 SCMR 1021 SUPREME-COURT
FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Finance, Islamabad VS E-MOVERS (PVT.) LIMITED art. 10a---'Due process'---Scope and meaning---Due process requirement must be met in the determination of rights and obligations---Constitution does not…
2022 SCMR 1052 SUPREME-COURT
SUBHANULLAH VS State S. 9(c)---Possession and transportation of narcotics---Reappraisal of evidence---Safe custody and safe transmission of samples to the Forensic Science Laboratory not established---Benefit of doubt---Prosecution had fail…
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