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2023 CLD 219 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
DIN FARM PRODUCTS (PVT.) LIMITED VS S. 89---Paid up capital, reduction in---Pre-conditions---Scope---Petitioner company sought confirmation of reduction in paid up capital---Validity---In case for confirmation of resolution of reduce share…
2023 CLD 225 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN VS NATOVER LEASE REFINANCE LIMITED S. 282-J(3)---Winding up of company---Misappropriation of funds---Intricate questions---Determination---Veil of incorporation---Effect---Security and Exchange…
2023 CLD 241 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
TOTAL PARCO PAKISTAN LTD. AND TOTAL OIL PAKISTAN (PVT.) LTD. VS Ss. 284, 285, 286, 287 & 288---Sindh Chief Court Rules (O. S.), Rr. 777, 778, 779 & 780---Company (Court) Rules, 1997, Form 21---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), S. 151---Sche…
2023 CLD 253 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
BANKERS EQUITY LIMITED VS GALADARI CEMENT (GULF) LIMITED S. 9---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O. I, R. 10---Suit for recovery of Bank loan---Necessary and proper party---Scope---Suit filed by plaintiff/Bank was pending and applicant/int…
2023 CLD 265 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
PAKISTAN SUGAR MILLS ASSOCIATION VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of Pakistan Ss.14, 24 & 28---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O.XXXIX, Rr. 1 & 2---Specific Relief act (I of 1877), Ss. 4…
2023 CLD 313 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ATIF AHMED VS SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN ("SECP") S. 14(5)(a)---Specific Relief Act (I of 1877), Ss. 42 & 54---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O. XXXIX, Rr. 1 & 2---Corporate Governance Regulatory Framework and Regulat…
2023 CLD 338 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
EAST RICE COMPANY (PVT.) LTD. VS MOON RICE CORPORATION Ss. 52 & 67---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O. XXXIX, Rr. 1 & 2---Registration of trade mark---Interim injunction, refusal of---Revocation proceedings, pendency of---Plaintiffs clai…
2023 CLD 352 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
KHURSHEED ANWAR HABIB VS MUHAMMAD AMIN S. 10-a---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), Ss. 200 & 439---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 406 & 420---Criminal breach of trust and cheating---appreciation of evidence---appeal against acquittal---Co…
2023 CLD 366 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
AGP LIMITED VS GALAXY PHARMA (PRIVATE) LIMITED Ss. 42 & 54---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O. XXXIX, Rr. 1 & 2---Suit for declaration, injunction and recovery of damages---Interim injunction, grant of---Necessary ingredients---Proof---P…
2023 CLD 417 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
G.A. ENTERPRISES (PRIVATE) LIMITED VS State Ss. 279, 280, 281, 282 & 283---Scheme of arrangement---Scope---Petitioner companies sought approval to transfer the entire undertaking of two companies to third company---Validity---Under the Sche…
2023 CLD 426 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ASSOCIATED CONSULTING ENGINEERS ACE LIMITED AND 4 OTHERS VS Ss. 279, 280, 282, 283 & 285---Scheme of arrangement---Merger and demergers---Scope---Petitioners sought approval of Scheme of Arrangement, which involved the demerger of four port…
2023 CLD 454 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD SHAFI TANNERIES (PRIVATE) LIMITED AND 2 OTHERS VS Ss. 279, 280, 282, 283 & 285---Scheme of arrangement---Merger and demergers---Scope---Petitioners requested for Court's approval of a Scheme of Arrangement, which involved specific…
2023 CLD 464 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
HABIB METROPOLITAN MODARABA MANAGEMENT COMPANY (PRIVATE) LIMITED AND 2 OTHERS VS Ss. 279, 280, 282, 283 & 285---Scheme of arrangement---Scope---Petitioners requested the Court's approval of Scheme of Arrangement, which involved merging comp…
2023 CLD 521 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ANJUM SALEEM VS CITI BANK Ss. 19 & 22---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O.XXI, Rr. 66 & 90---Execution of decree---Sale, objections to---Inadequate price---Appellant/judgment debtor after confirmation of sale through auction and delivery…
2023 CLD 530 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MCKINSEY AND COMPANIES PAKISTAN (PRIVATE) LIMITED VS SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN Ss. 2(49), 225(2) & 228(1)---Exemption from disclosures---Principle---Remuneration of directors---Exemption was sought on the count that dis…
2023 CLD 541 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD ABDUL QAYYUM SHAIKH VS AHMAD CONSTRUCTION CO. LTD. Ss. 19 & 22---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O. I, R. 10---Execution of decree---Third party rights---Appellants/interveners sought permission to be impleaded as a party to exec…
2023 CLD 570 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MOHAMMAD AHMAD ANSARI VS INTERGLOBE COMMERCE PAKISTAN (PVT.) LTD. Doctrine of separate legal entity---Lifting of "veil of incorporation"---Scope---Number of circumstances are by now recognized as grounds for lifting the veil of incorporatio…
2023 CLD 616 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
RAZAQUE STEELS (PVT.) LTD VS Ss. 279, 280, 281, 282, 283 & 285---Compromise with creditors and members---Reconstruction or amalgamation of companies---Scope---Petitioners sought sanction of the High Court to a Scheme of Arrangement---In ter…
2023 CLD 624 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
AWWAL MODARABA MANAGEMENT LIMITED VS Ss. 279, 280, 283 & 505---Competition act (XIX of 2010), S. 11---Compromise with creditors and members---Reconstruction or amalgamation of companies---approval of mergers from Competition Commission, exe…
2023 CLD 639 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
LUCKY LANDMARK (PVT.) LTD. AND ANOTHER VS State Ss. 279, 280, 281, 282, 283 & 285---Compromise with creditors and members---Reconstruction or amalgamation of companies---Scope---Petitioners sought sanction of the High Court to a Scheme of A…
2023 CLD 644 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
AWWAL MODARABA MANAGEMENT LIMITED VS Ss. 279, 280, 281, 282, 283 & 505---Competition act (XIX of 2010), S. 11---Competition (Merger Control) Regulations, 2016, Regln. 6---Compromise with creditors and members---Reconstruction or amalgamatio…
2023 CLD 652 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
NADEEM POWER GENERATION (PVT.) LTD. VS Ss. 279, 280, 281 & 282---Merger of companies---Object, purpose and scope---Petitioner companies sought approval of Scheme of their merger---Validity---Approach was channelized to ascertain (i) whether…
2023 CLD 670 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
DOLLAR INDUSTRIES (PVT.) LIMITED VS KAMRAN AKHLAQ Ss. 56, 60, 60a, 66 & 72---Specific Relief act (I of 1877), Ss. 42 & 54---Suit for declaration and injunction---Intellectual property---Infringement of copy right work---Plaintiffs claimed t…
2023 CLD 691 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Dr. AMIR BUX CHANNA VS ISRA ISLAMIC FOUNDATION (GUARANTEE) LTD. S. 286---affairs of company---Coram to file application---Threshold of 10% of membership---application was filed by two members which met the criteria but one petitioner withdr…
2023 CLD 718 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
KESC LABOUR UNION VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Cabinet Secretary art. 199---Constitutional jurisdiction---Public interest litigation---Bona fide of petitioner---Discretion of court---Scope---any individual or small group of persons, in…
2023 CLD 867 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ANWAR AHMED ANSARI VS PAK LIBYA HOLDING CO. (PVT.) LTD. Ss. 19 & 22--- Limitation Act (IX of 1908), First Sched. & Art. 166--- Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), S. 12(2) & O. XXI, R. 89---Execution of decree---Sale, assailing of---Limitatio…
2023 CLD 883 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
FOUNDATION SECURITIES (PVT.) LTD. VS Ss. 279, 280, 281, 282 & 285---Compromise with creditors and members---Reconstruction or amalgamation of companies---Scope---Petitioners sought sanction of the High Court to a Scheme of Arrangement---In…
2023 CLD 905 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
KHURRAM MUGHAL VS Mrs. NAUREEN MUGHAL S. 118---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O. XXXVII, Rr. 1 & 2---Suit for recovery of money---Leave to defend the suit, grant of---Negotiable instrument---Presumption---Pleading of another suit---Disho…
2023 CLD 920 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
The BANK OF PUNJAB VS HASCOL PETROLEUM LIMITED Ss. 3, 9 & 10---Bankers' Books Evidence Act (XVIII of 1891), S. 4---Suit for recovery of finances---Indoor management, doctrine of---Authority to file suit---Principle---Leave to defend the sui…
2023 CLD 1040 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SILK BANK LIMITED VS ZAFAR MEHMOOD SHAIKH Ss. 9 & 22---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O.XX, Rr. 4 & 5---Suit for recovery of finance---Appreciation of evidence---Judgment---Failure to give reasons---Appellant/Bank was aggrieved of judgme…
2023 CLD 1088 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
VS Ss. 279, 280, 281, 282, 283 & 285--- Scheme of Merger---approval---Duty of Court---In terms of the Scheme of Merger entire undertaking and business including assets, rights, properties, benefits, powers, privileges, contracts, liabilitie…
2023 CLD 1094 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ZUBAIR AHMED VS SINDH ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY S. 18---Strategic environmental assessment---Publication of policy---Scope---Whenever any policy, plan, program or legislation is proposed, it must be translated into the national as wel…
2023 CLD 1111 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
VS Ss. 279, 280, 281, 282, 283 & 285---Sindh Chief Court Rules (O.S), R. 781---Companies (Court) Rules, 1997, R. 19---Competition (Merger Control) Regulation, 2016, Regln. 5---Scheme of Merger---Approval---Duty of Court---Pre-merger clearan…
2023 CLD 1124 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MOHAMMAD IFTIKHAR VS FIRST DAWOOD INVESTMENT BANK LTD. Ss. 9 & 22---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), S. 12(2) & O. IX, R. 13---Suit for recovery of finances---Judgment, setting aside of---Fraud and misrepresentation---Proof---Settlement, c…
2023 CLD 1136 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
PAKISTAN DEFENCE OFFICERS HOUSING AUTHORITY VS Mst. GUL RUKH SAMINA BUTT S. 27---Specific Relief act (I of 1877), Ss. 42 & 54---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), S. 11, O. VII, R. 11---Suit for declaration and injunction---Rejection of plai…
2023 CLD 1220 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
The HUB POWER COMPANY LTD. VS CHINA POWER HUB GENERATION COMPANY (PRIVATE) LIMITED Letter of credit---Principle of autonomy---Applicability---In Letter of Credit transaction, Principle of autonomy is a cardinal principle---Principle of auto…
2023 CLD 1259 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
The DIRECTORATE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Ministry of Law and Justice, Government of Pakistan Ss. 16 & 18---Customs act (IV of 1969), S. 194---Release of imported goods--- Solange method---D…
2023 CLD 1511 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
WARTSILA PAKISTAN (PVT.) LIMITED VS GUL AHMED ENERGY LIMITED S. 13---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O. XXXIX, Rr. 1 & 2---Specific Relief act (I of 1877), Ss. 42 & 54---Suit for declaration and injunction---Interim injunction, refusal of…
2023 PLD 44 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
LAL BUX VS GOVERNMENT OF SINDH through Executive District Officer (Revenue), Khairpur O. IX, R. 6---Ex-parte proceedings---Duty of Court---Scope---Appellants filed suit for declaration and injunction on basis of inquiry report before Trial…
2023 PTD 9 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ZAKWAN STEEL VS The FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN Good Governance---Scope---Object of good governance cannot be achieved by exercising discriminatory powers unreasonably or arbitrarily and without application of mind---Such objective can only be a…
2023 PTD 39 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUMTAZ ALI RAJPAR AND BROTHERS VS PROVINCE OF SINDH through Secretary Mines and Minerals Development Ss.161(2) & 236(a)---Failure to pay tax collected---advance tax at the time of sale by auction---Royalty collection---Contractual liability…
2023 PTD 51 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
The COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS (ENFORCEMENT) CUSTOMS HOUSE, KARACHI VS HASSAN TRADING COMPANY Ss.25, 189 & 196---Show-cause notice, non-issuance of---Confiscation of goods---Dispute was with regard to declaring imported goods as White Spirit but…
2023 PTD 68 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
The DIRECTOR OF CUSTOMS VALUATION VS HANNA DAIRIES S.196---Limitation Act (IX of 1908), S.5---Reference---Limitation---Condonation of delay---Government department, entitlement of---Force majeure---Authorities sought condonation of delay in…
2023 PTD 143 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SAIF-UL-MULK VS State S.497---Sales Tax Act (VII of 1990), Ss.33(11)(c) & 33(13)----Bail---Requirement of cash surety---Scope---Accused was granted bail with the consent of Special Prosecutor (Customs) subject to the deposit of 25% of the a…
2023 PTD 174 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
AYESHA ZAFAR VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN Ss.31 & 32---Notice to person holding property (house) suspected to be acquired by smuggling---Order of Special Judge---Scope---Petitioner questioned the proceedings pending before the Special Court in…
2023 PTD 186 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
RELIANCE PETROCHEM INDUSTRIES (PVT.) LTD. VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Revenue, Ex-Officio Chairman, FBR S.122---amendment of assessment---Opinion already formed---Scope---Taxpayer company was aggrieved of show-cause notice i…
2023 PTD 231 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
COMMISSIONER OF WEALTH TAX VS SINDH STEEL CORPORATION (PRIVATE) LIMITED, KARACHI Ss.16(3), 17 & 27---Wealth tax assessment---Jurisdiction---Principle of redundancy---Applicability---Valuation date previous to previous year---Dispute was wit…
2023 PTD 264 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
COMMISSIONER INLAND REVENUE VS NEW ALLIED ELECTRONICS INDUSTRIES (PVT.) LTD. S.11---Customs act (IV of 1969), S.32---Mis-declaration---assessment of tax and recovery of tax not levied or short levied or erroneously refunded---Scope---Respon…
2023 PTD 527 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
NESTLE PAKISTAN LIMITED VS The FEDERAL BOARD OF REVENUE Ss. 32, 79, 80 & 179---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Constitutional petition---Word "taxes"---Re-assessment of taxes---Release of goods---Petitioners were aggrieved of re-assess…
2023 PTD 576 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
WAZIR ALI INDUSTRIES LTD. VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN S.25(1)---access to record and documents---Commissioner, jurisdiction of---Scope---Requirements of S.25(1) of Sales Tax act, 1990, are neither unfettered nor are so liberal that a hunting…
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