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2023 PLD 1 FEDERAL-SHARIAT-COURT
MUHAMMAD IBRAHIM KHAN VS PROVINCE OF PUNJAB through Secretary Ministry of Law, Punjab Secretariat, Lahore adoption---Permissibility---according to the Quran (Verses 4 and 5 of Surah al-ahzab) one may adopt a child, but one cannot change his…
2023 PCrLJN 11 FEDERAL-SHARIAT-COURT
RAZ MUHAMMAD VS State S. 302(b)--- Offences against Property (Enforcement of Hudood) Ordinance (VI of 1979), S. 17(4)--- Qatl-i-amd, haraabah---appreciation of evidence---Motive was proved---Scope---accused were charged for committing murde…
2023 PLD 47 FEDERAL-SHARIAT-COURT
FAROOQ BROTHERS VS UNITED BANK LIMITED art. 203-D---Federal Shariat Court, jurisdiction of---Scope---any subordinate legislation or a law even if validated or protected under Constitution cannot get itself out from the test of repugnancy at…
2023 PLD 265 FEDERAL-SHARIAT-COURT
ALI AZHAR VS PROVINCE OF SINDH art. 203-D---Federal Shariat Court, jurisdiction of---Relief in personam---Grant of relief in personam is beyond the jurisdiction of the Federal Shariat Court and, therefore, cannot be granted. Head NotesCase…
2023 PCrLJ 757 FEDERAL-SHARIAT-COURT
FAHEEM VS State Benefit of doubt---applicability---Single circumstance creating reasonable doubt in the prudent mind about guilt of accused, benefit thereof is to be extended to the accused not as a matter of grace or concession, but as mat…
2023 PLD 283 FEDERAL-SHARIAT-COURT
NADEEM SIDDIQUI VS ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF PAKISTAN Ss. 28, 29 & 30---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 203-D---Shariat petition---Impugned law already repealed---Rights of Corporation in cases of default---Power to call for payment before agreed…
2023 YLR 336 FEDERAL-SHARIAT-COURT
MUJEEB UR REHMAN VS State Ss. 396, 427, 148 & 149---Dacoity with murder, mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees, rioting armed with deadly weapon, unlawful assembly---Appreciation of evidence---Recovery of incriminating artic…
2023 YLR 890 FEDERAL-SHARIAT-COURT
ASAD ALI VS Pir QAMAR ZAMAN S. 17(3)---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Art. 129(g)---Haraabah---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Appeal against acquittal---Withholding material evidence---Accused were charged for entering into t…
2023 YLR 1153 FEDERAL-SHARIAT-COURT
KASHIF ALI VS State art. 4---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S.439---Recovery of liquor---appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Chemical Examination Report---Sample form one bottle---Liquor in 48 bottles was allegedly recovered…
2023 YLR 2015 FEDERAL-SHARIAT-COURT
ALI ASGHAR VS State S. 302(b)---Offences against Property (Enforcement of Hudood) Ordinance (VI of 1979), S. 17(4)---Qatl-i-amd, haraabah---appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt--- Defective investigation---accused were charged for ro…
2023 PLD 286 FEDERAL-SHARIAT-COURT
KHURRAM SHEHZAD VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Ministry of Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan, Islamabad S.10(4)---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 203-D---Shariat petition---Dissolution of marriage---"Khula"----Khula granted under S.…
2023 PLD 291 FEDERAL-SHARIAT-COURT
NAJAAT WELFARE FOUNDATION VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs, Central Secretariat, Shaharah-e-Dastoor, Islamabad art. 203B(c)---Federal Shariat Court, jurisdiction of---Scope---No…
2023 PTD 1594 FEDERAL-TAX-OMBUDSMAN-PAKISTAN
MUHAMMAD KHALID VS The SECRETARY, REVENUE DIVISION, ISLAMABAD Ss. 2(3), 9 & 10---Sales Tax Act (VII of 1990), Ss. 11, 45-B & 73---Sales Tax Refund Rules, 2002, Rr. 7 & 37---Maladministration---Scope---Refund of tax to commercial exporter on…
2023 PTD 1614 FEDERAL-TAX-OMBUDSMAN-PAKISTAN
The SECRETARY, REVENUE DIVISION, ISLAMABAD VS Ss. 2(3)(i)(a)(b) & 2(3)(ii), 9 & 10---Pending cases of taxpayers, non-assigning of---Maladministration---Scope---Federal Tax Ombudsman took Own Motion against FBR Authorities to provide relief…
2023 PLD 301 FEDERAL-SHARIAT-COURT
HAMMAD HUSSAIN VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of Law and Justice S.2(1)(n)---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 203-D---Shariat petitions---Transgender person---Definition---Scope---Terms Intersex (Khusra), Eunuch, Transg…
2023 PCrLJN 67 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court
JAMAL HUSSAIN VS State S. 497---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 380 & 454---Theft in dwelling house---Lurking house-trespass or house-breaking in order to commit offence punishable with imprisonment---Scope---Accused was directly nominated in…
2023 YLRN 4 GILGIT-BALTISTAN-SUPREME-APPELLATE-COURT
ASHIQ HUSSAIN VS State S. 497---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), S.409---Criminal breach of trust by public servant, or by banker, merchant or agent---Bail, grant of---Delayed FIR---Scope---Accused was alleged to have committed an act of embezzlem…
2023 YLRN 10 GILGIT-BALTISTAN-SUPREME-APPELLATE-COURT
MUHAMMAD ZAMAN VS State Ss. 6 & 23---"Terrorism"---Power to transfer cases to regular Courts---Scope---Accused persons assailed the concurrent dismissal of their application under S. 23 of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997---Facts and circumstan…
2023 YLRN 16 GILGIT-BALTISTAN-SUPREME-APPELLATE-COURT
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT through Chief Secretary GB VS ABDUL GHAYAS Timber Disposal Policy, 2015---Petitioners sought leave to appeal against the order passed by learned Chief Court, whereby writ petition of the respondent was accepted and the…
2023 PLC(CS)N 33 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court
MARIA ZAIB VS NIGHAT AFZAL appointment against the post of Elementary School Teacher---Contention of petitioner was that she had fulfilled the requisite criteria but she had not been appointed---Validity---Department had deviated from its o…
2023 PLC(CS)N 44 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court
KALEEM ULLAH VS CHANCELLOR KIU/PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN Regularization of service---Scope---Petitioner sought regularization of his services and assailed in writ jurisdiction the decision of his exclusion from shortlisted candidates for the po…
2023 PLC(CS)N 50 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court
NIAMAT ULLAH VS The PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GILGIT-BALTISTAN Contract appointment---Regularization of service---Discrimination---Effect---Direction in similar nature of cases had already been issued to the authorities to regularize the servic…
2023 PLC(CS)N 53 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court
SHABINA KARIM VS PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT through Chief Secretary Gilgit-Baltistan Gilgit Transfer and posting---Scope---Petitioner through writ sought a direction to the respondents to adjust/transfer her within the local limits of specific u…
2023 PLC(CS)N 62 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court
RAZIA BANO VS PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT GILGIT-BALTISTAN appointment against development project---Regularization of service---Scope---Petitioner was employed in the year 1995 against a development project---Service of petitioner had not been r…
2023 PLC(CS)N 65 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court
SAEED ULLAH VS GOVERNMENT OF GILGIT-BALTISTAN Equity aids the vigilant and not the indolent---Delay defeats equity---Law favours vigilant and not the indolent. Head NotesCase Description Citation Name: 2023 PLC(CS)N 65 Gilgit-Baltistan Chie…
2023 PLC(CS)N 67 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court
SHAHID ALI VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Chancellor Karakorum International University Gilgit Baltistan, Gilgit R.2---Seniority on initial appointment---Scope---Petitioners whoever initially appointed on contract basis challenged the se…
2023 PLC(CS)N 69 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court
SADARAT ALI VS PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT through Chief Secretary, Gilgit-Baltistan appointment---Petitioners were not selected---Claim of petitioners, inter alia, was that the authorities had extracted money on the pretext of rechecking of pape…
2023 PLC(CS) 1154 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court
SHABBAR HUSSAIN VS PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT through Chief Secretary Gilgit-Baltistan Regularization of services---Scope---Petitioners and 15 other persons were appointed as Mali BPS-1 and Chowkidar BPS-1 at State nurseries---Department termina…
2023 PLC(CS) 1308 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court
TARIQ JAMAL VS PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT through Chief Secretary Gilgit-Baltistan, Gilgit Official accommodation---Vested right---Scope---Petitioners were government employees who were aggrieved of notices issued by government to vacate governm…
2023 PLC(CS) 1504 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court
MUHAMMAD JAMIL, AIG OPS GILGIT-BALTISTAN, GILGIT VS PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT through Chief Secretary G.B. Date of birth of civil servant, alteration of---Scope---Petitioner, serving as Additional Inspector General in Police, sought directions…
2023 PLC(CS) 1515 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court
NOSHAD ALI VS GOVERNMENT OF GILGIT-BALTISTAN appointment on the basis of Prime Minister's assistance Package---Petitioner being son of deceased permanent employee had sought directions for his appointment on the basis of said Package after…
2023 CLC 2152 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court
AKBAR KHAN VS INAYAT AKBER S.47---Execution proceedings---Objection petition---Executing Court, powers of---Scope---Objection petition filed by the petitioner /judgment-debtor was dismissed by the Executing Court, which order was maintained…
2023 MLD 17 GILGIT-BALTISTAN-SUPREME-APPELLATE-COURT
JUNAID AHMED VS State Civil and criminal proceedings--- Scope--- Civil and criminal liabilities are two different components and do not have bearing on the outcome of each other, as such due to commission of criminal act by a person, he can…
2023 MLD 39 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court
ALI MUHAMMAD VS FIDA HUSSAIN O. V, R. 25 & S. 12(2)---Service where defendant resides out of Pakistan and has no agent---Scope---Petitioner assailed ex-parte judgment and decree on ground that he was residing out of Pakistan when the decree…
2023 MLD 57 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court
HAFAS KHAN VS MOHAMMAD ALI O. IX, R. 13---Setting aside ex parte decree---Sufficient cause---Scope---Petitioners/defendants assailed the dismissal of their application under O. IX, R. 13, C.P.C.---Validity---Defendants had remained absent i…
2023 MLD 143 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court
MUSADDIQ HUSSAIN VS State S. 497---Bail---Case not falling in prohibitory clause---Scope---Grant of bail is a rule and refusal is an exception where the offence does not fall within the prohibitory clause of S. 497, Cr.P.C. Head NotesCase D…
2023 MLD 172 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court
EZAM KHAN VS State S. 497---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 324 & 34---Pakistan Arms Ordinance (XX of 1965), S. 13---Juvenile Justice System Ordinance (XXII of 2000), S. 10---Attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, common intention---Un-licensed posses…
2023 MLD 304 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court
WAJID SHAHBAZ VS STATION HOUSE OFFICER (SHO), POLICE STATION GAHKUCH CITY, DISTRICT GHIZER S. 561-a---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 341, 147, 353, 186, 506, 500, 337-a(iii) & 427---Rioting---Quashing of FIR---Scope---Some miscreants had com…
2023 MLD 346 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court
ABDUL HASSAN VS MUHAMMAD ABBAS Limitation---Scope---No bar of limitation and estoppel exists in cases of inheritance. Head NotesCase Description Citation Name: 2023 MLD 346 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief CourtBookmark this Case ABDUL HASSAN VS MUHA…
2023 MLD 817 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT through Chief Secretary, Gilgit-Baltistan VS JUMLA AHLYAN BURSING MOUZA KEHCHONG (HUSSAINABAD) S. 10---Stay of suit---Scope---Where appeal of previous suit was pending for adjudication in the Appellate Court and the sa…
2023 MLD 1204 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court
JUMLA BASHINDGAN DEEN VS MUHAMMAD HUSSAIN S. 42---Suit for declaration---Right in Shamilat Deh---Non-resident of village---Scope---Plaintiff claimed a right in Shamilat Deh (village common lands)---Trial Court and Appellate Court decreed th…
2023 MLD 2011 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court
AHLIYAN-E-PISSAN VS FIDA ALI Ss. 42 & 54---Suit for declaration and permanent injunction---Claim of the plaintiffs was that they were bona fide owners-in-possession of the suit-property---Suit was concurrently decreed in favour of plaintiff…
2023 MLD 2055 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court
ALI DAD VS MUHAMMAD HUSSAIN S. 115---Concurrent findings---Revisional jurisdiction of the Chief Court---Validity---Concurrent findings of courts could not be upset by the Chief Court in its revisional jurisdiction in a casual manner, rather…
2023 MLD 2114 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court
MUHAMMAD NAQASH VS HUSSAIN NASIR Ss.497(5) & 497(1)---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 489-F & 420---Dishonoring of cheque, cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property---Petition for cancellation of post-arrest bail, dismissal of---…
2023 PCrLJ 1811 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court
ABDUL NASIR VS State Ss. 497 & 161--- anti-Terrorism act (XXVII of 1997), Ss. 7 & 21-H---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 302 & 34---act of terrorism, qatl-i-amd, common intention---Bail, refusal of---Confessional statement---Scope---Plea of t…
2023 YLR 22 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court
NAIB KHAN VS SULTAN WALI S. 10---Land Acquisition Act (I of 1894), S. 18---Specific Relief Act (I of 1877), S. 42---Suit for declaration---Reference to Court---Stay of suit---Scope---Petitioner filed a suit for declaration against the respo…
2023 YLR 168 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court
AMJAD HUSSAIN VS ZAFAR JANG S. 9---arbitration act (X of 1940), S.34---Civil Court to try all suits unless barred---Power to stay legal proceedings where there is an arbitration clause---Scope---Plaintiff assailed the rejection of his plain…
2023 YLR 364 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court
Syed WAJAHAT ALI SHAH VS State S. 497---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), S. 322---Qatl-bis-sabab---Bail, grant of---Scope---Accused was alleged to have been a cause of the suicide of deceased lady, as such, he was charged under S. 322, P.P.C.---De…
2023 YLR 494 Gilgit-Baltistan Chief Court
Mst. FIZZA VS FIDA HUSSAIN S. 144--- Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Art.114--- Application for restitution---Estoppel---Scope---Petitioners assailed concurrent orders of courts below whereby the respondent's application under S. 144, C.P.C.…
2023 PLC(CS)N 27 GILGIT-BALTISTAN-SUPREME-APPELLATE-COURT
SUPREME APPELLAE COURT BAR ASSOCIATION GILGIT-BALTISTAN VS GILGIT-BALTISTAN COUNCIL Part.II [Arts. 3 to 19]---Fundamental rights---Independence of judiciary---Scope---Independence of judiciary is one of the fundamental features of the Const…
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