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2023 PLD 321 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Mst. NAZ BIBI VS WAHID BUX Inheritance---Tarkah---Service benefits---Scope---Any service benefit that an employee is legally entitled to claim from his employer in his lifetime, or has become due and payable to him in his lifetime but has r…
2023 PLD 321 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Mst. NAZ BIBI VS WAHID BUX Inheritance---Tarkah---Scope---Legal heirs of a deceased person can inherit only from the estate/tarkah of the deceased---Any property, right or benefit that does not form part of the estate/tarkah, is not inherit…
2023 PLD 321 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Mst. NAZ BIBI VS WAHID BUX Inheritance---Tarkah---Scope---Only such property of the deceased person is inheritable and shall form part of his estate/tarkah that was in his ownership at the time of his death, or he had acquired an absolute r…
2023 PLD 321 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Mst. NAZ BIBI VS WAHID BUX Inheritance---Tarkah---Nominee, entitlement of---Scope---Nominee is not entitled to exclusively claim or receive any property or benefit falling in the category of tarkah of the deceased; nomination does not confe…
2023 PLD 321 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Mst. NAZ BIBI VS WAHID BUX Inheritance---Tarkah---Service benefits---Scope---Service benefit falling under any of the categories of grant, donation, bounty, concession or compensation, payable after the death of the employee, shall not form…
2023 PLD 328 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS OF PAKISTAN VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Islamabad Ss. 21 & 22---Cost and Management Accountants Act (XIV of 1966), Ss. 21 & 22---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 18---Co…
2023 PLD 328 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS OF PAKISTAN VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Islamabad art. 18---Freedom of profession---Regulation by License---Scope---License is a more restrictive form of professional…
2023 PLD 328 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
INSTITUTE OF CHARTERED ACCOUNTANTS OF PAKISTAN VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Islamabad art. 18---Freedom of trade, business or profession---Regulation by Certification---Scope---Certification is a less in…
2023 PLD 346 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
BURSHANE LPG (PAKISTAN) LIMITED VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary/Chairman Revenue Division, Islamabad S. 20---Predicate offence---Jurisdiction---Where predicate offence has been committed or any property has been acquired etc. by…
2023 PLD 346 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
BURSHANE LPG (PAKISTAN) LIMITED VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary/Chairman Revenue Division, Islamabad Ss. 3, 4, 8, 20, 21, 22 & Sched. I---Income Tax Ordinance (XLIX of 2001), Ss. 192, 192-A & 203---Predicate offence, commission…
2023 PLD 346 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
BURSHANE LPG (PAKISTAN) LIMITED VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary/Chairman Revenue Division, Islamabad S. 154---Constitution of Pakistan, Art.199---Constitutional petition---Quashing of FIR---Criminal issues---While exercising Con…
2023 PLD 367 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
AITBAR ALI alias BABLU VS State S. 9(c)---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 10-A---Possession of narcotic substances---Right of accused to have the recovered narcotics reweighed---Fair trial---Scope---Application was filed by the petitioner/ac…
2023 PLD 27 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MOHLIB ENTERPRISES VS The PROVINCE OF SINDH Rr. 29 & 32---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Constitutional petition---Public procurement---Eligibility criteria---Scope---Alternate remedy, non-availing of---Petitioner without availing rem…
2023 PLD 369 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
HASCOL PETROLEUM LIMITED VS IIIRD SENIOR CIVIL JUDGE/RENT CONTROLLER, KARACHI S. 13---arbitration act (X of 1940), S. 34---Eviction of tenant---Power to stay legal proceedings where there is an arbitration agreement---Scope---Respondent sou…
2023 YLR 1 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Agha Mir MUSTAFA KHAN DURRANI VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Election Commission of Pakistan Ss. 35(1)(c) & 37(2)(a)---Local Government elections---Urban and rural areas---Qualifications as a member of council---Petitioner file…
2023 YLR 12 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
BALACH VS IMTIAZ-UL-HAQ Ss. 12, 9, 39 & 54---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), S. 2(12)---Suit for specific performance--- Suit for cancellation, possession, mesne profits, damages and permanent injunction---Scope---Plaintiff filed a suit f…
2023 YLR 40 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
UNITED BUSINESS MACHINES VS GHULAM HUSSAIN HIDAYATULLAH S. 15---Eviction petition---Personal bona fide need of landlord---Honesty of intention---Scope---Section 15(2)(vii) of Sindh Rented Premises Ordinance, 1979, requires demonstration of…
2023 YLR 40 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
UNITED BUSINESS MACHINES VS GHULAM HUSSAIN HIDAYATULLAH "Good faith"---Meaning---Good faith is an abstract term not capable of any rigid definition and ordinary dictionary meaning describes it as "honesty of intention".
2023 YLR 40 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
UNITED BUSINESS MACHINES VS GHULAM HUSSAIN HIDAYATULLAH S. 15---Eviction petition---Transfer of property, challenge to---Scope---Many ways were available by which a property can be transferred to a beneficiary and one of those ways is by wa…
2023 YLR 40 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
UNITED BUSINESS MACHINES VS GHULAM HUSSAIN HIDAYATULLAH S. 15---Eviction petition---Personal bona fide need---Honesty of intention---Scope---Requirement of premises in good faith is not capable of being confined to precise, identical or inv…
2023 YLR 40 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
UNITED BUSINESS MACHINES VS GHULAM HUSSAIN HIDAYATULLAH S. 15---Eviction petition---Personal bona fide need of landlord---Scope---Landlord filed applications for eviction of tenants from a building on the ground of personal requirement---Re…
2023 YLR 40 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
UNITED BUSINESS MACHINES VS GHULAM HUSSAIN HIDAYATULLAH S. 15---Eviction petition---Personal bona fide need of landlord---Honesty of intention---Scope---Primary requirement and condition precedent for invoking provision of S. 15(2)(vii) of…
2023 YLR 40 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
UNITED BUSINESS MACHINES VS GHULAM HUSSAIN HIDAYATULLAH S. 15---Eviction petition---Personal bona fide need of landlord---Honesty of intention--- Scope--- Sufficiency of accommodation either for a commercial/ industrial activity or for resi…
2023 YLR 40 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
UNITED BUSINESS MACHINES VS GHULAM HUSSAIN HIDAYATULLAH S. 15---Eviction petition---Letter of attornment---Scope---Landlord filed applications for eviction of tenants from a building on the ground of personal requirement---Rent Controller a…
2023 YLR 104 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ABDUL AZIZ VS ABDUL KAREEM S. 41---Specific Relief act (I of 1877), S. 27(b)---Buying property without public notice----Respondents filed suit for cancellation against one of their brothers (respondent No. 2)---Respondents moved an applicat…
2023 YLR 127 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
AIMAN FATIMA VS FOZIA HASAN Ss. 278 & 372---Petition for letters of administration---Application for grant of succession certificate---Scope---Petitioner filed an application for grant of succession certificate in respect of moveable assets…
2023 YLR 153 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
GHULAM SHABBIR VS State S. 9(c)---Testimony of police officials, reliance upon---Scope---Police witnesses were as good as other independent witnesses and conviction could be recorded on their evidence, but their testimony should be reliable…
2023 YLR 153 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
GHULAM SHABBIR VS State S. 9(c)---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 103---Possession of narcotic---Appreciation of evidence---Non-association of private witnesses at the time of arrest of accused and recovery of cars---Scope---Prosecu…
2023 YLR 153 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
GHULAM SHABBIR VS State S. 103---"Search to be made in presence of witnesses"---Object---Prime object of S. 103, Cr.P.C., is to ensure transparency and fairness on the part of police during the course of recovery, so as to curb false implic…
2023 YLR 153 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
GHULAM SHABBIR VS State Benefit of doubt---Principle---If there is a single circumstance, which created reasonable doubt in a prudent mind about the guilt of the accused, then the accused would be entitled to its benefit not as a matter of…
2023 YLR 153 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
GHULAM SHABBIR VS State S. 9(c)---Possession of narcotic---Appreciation of evidence---Discrepancies---Scope---Prosecution case was that ten kilograms of charas was recovered from the possession of the accused persons---Recovery of charas ha…
2023 YLR 153 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
GHULAM SHABBIR VS State S. 9(c)---Possession of narcotic---Appreciation of evidence---Safe custody and safe transmission of samples to the Forensic Science Laboratory not established---Benefit of doubt---Scope---Prosecution case was that te…
2023 YLR 173 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MORAN KHAN VS ALI NAWAZ If the words of the statute are clear and unambiguous, no more is necessary to expound those words in their natural and ordinary sense, the words themselves in such a case best declare the intentions of legislature.
2023 YLR 173 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MORAN KHAN VS ALI NAWAZ S. 417---Illegal Dispossession Act (XI of 2005), S. 3---Prevention of illegal possession of property, etcetera---Appeal against acquittal---Limitation---Scope---For assailing the acquittal judgment, arising out of a…
2023 YLR 173 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MORAN KHAN VS ALI NAWAZ Where the plain language of a statute admits of no other interpretation then the intention of the legislature conveyed through such language is to be given its full effect.
2023 YLR 187 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ADEEL ZAHOOR MALIK VS ABDUL SATTAR SHAIKH S. 3---Prevention of illegal possession of property---Scope---Illegal Dispossession Act, 2005, being special law, shall have application only where the ingredient(s) thereof are, prima facie, satisf…
2023 YLR 187 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ADEEL ZAHOOR MALIK VS ABDUL SATTAR SHAIKH S. 3---Prevention of illegal possession of property---Expression "without having any lawful authority"---Scope---Prima facie, S. 3 of Illegal Dispossession Act, 2005, is aimed to prevent "illegal po…
2023 YLR 187 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ADEEL ZAHOOR MALIK VS ABDUL SATTAR SHAIKH S. 3---Prevention of illegal possession of property---Dispossession on court's order---Effect---Petitioners assailed the dismissal of their complaint under S. 3 of the Illegal Dispossession Act, 200…
2023 YLR 207 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ARIF KAMAL VS State Ss. 420, 468, 471, 477-a & 34---Prevention of Corruption act (II of 1947), S. 5(2)---Offences in Respect of Banks (Special Courts) Ordinance (IX of 1984), Ss. 4 & 5---appreciation of evidence---Jurisdiction of Banking Co…
2023 YLR 242 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
AYAZ HUSSAIN VS State S. 9(c)---Possession of Narcotics---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Prosecution case was that 4000 grams charas was recovered from the plastic bag of the accused---Record showed that on spy information th…
2023 YLR 242 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
AYAZ HUSSAIN VS State S. 9(c)---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 103---Possession of narcotics---Appreciation of evidence---Contradictions in the statements of witnesses---Scope---Prosecution case was that 4000 grams charas was recov…
2023 YLR 242 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
AYAZ HUSSAIN VS State Witness--- Police Officials as witnesses--- Scope--- No doubt police witnesses were as good as other independent witnesses and conviction could be recorded on their evidence, but their testimony should be reliable, dep…
2023 YLR 242 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
AYAZ HUSSAIN VS State S.9(c)---Possession of narcotics---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Delay of two days in sending the sample for analysis---Effect---Prosecution case was that 4000 grams charas was recovered from the plasti…
2023 YLR 242 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
AYAZ HUSSAIN VS State S. 9(c)---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 103---Possession of narcotics---Appreciation of evidence---Search to be made in presence of witnesses---Scope---Prosecution case was that 4000 grams charas was recovere…
2023 YLR 242 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
AYAZ HUSSAIN VS State S. 9(c)---Possession of narcotics---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Safe custody and transmission of samples of the narcotic from the police to the chemical examiner was not established---Effect---Prosecu…
2023 YLR 242 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
AYAZ HUSSAIN VS State Benefit of doubt--- Principle--- Not necessary that there should many circumstances creating doubts---If there was a single circumstance, which creates reasonable doubt in a prudent mind about the guilt of the accused…
2023 YLR 261 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
KISHANCHAND VS Syed MOHAMMAD ZULFIQAR NAQVI S. 42---Transfer of Property Act (IV of 1882), S. 54---Suit for declaration---Contract for sale---Scope---No title or ownership can be claimed merely on the basis of an agreement, even if the poss…
2023 YLR 261 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
KISHANCHAND VS Syed MOHAMMAD ZULFIQAR NAQVI Ss. 42 & 8---Limitation Act (IX of 1908), Art. 120---Suit for declaration and possession---Limitation---Scope---Plaintiffs filed a suit for declaration, possession and mesne profits with a prayer…
2023 YLR 270 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MOULA BUX alias MOLU VS State Ss. 302, 324, 353, 392, 397 & 34---anti-Terrorism act (XXVII of 1997), S. 7---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty, robbery, rob…
2023 YLR 270 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MOULA BUX alias MOLU VS State Ss. 302, 324, 353, 392, 397 & 34---anti-Terrorism act (XXVII of 1997), S. 7---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty, robbery, rob…
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