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2023 PLD 669 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD AFZAL VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE, LAHORE S. 5, Sched.---Suit for recovery of dowry articles---Alternate price of dowry articles---Appreciation of value of dowry articles---Scope---Husband's (petitioner) case was that there was no…
2023 PLD 677 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
HASSAN NAIMAT ULLAH KHAN VS MUMTAZ CITY through CEO S. 9---Civil Court, jurisdiction of---Scope---Civil Court is Court of plenary jurisdiction vested with authority/jurisdiction to determine jurisdictional fact concerning its own jurisdicti…
2023 PLD 694 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD ASHFAQ VS IMRAN NADEEM S. 12(2)---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199(1)(a)(i)---Writ of mandamus---Application filed under S. 12(2), C.P.C. for setting-aside a writ of mandamus issued by the High Court---Respondent had filed a Cons…
2023 PLD 699 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
BASHARAT ALI VS MUHAMMAD ARIF O. III, R. 1 & O. XXIII, Rr. 1, 2---Counsel engaged by the party, authority of---Wakalatnama (Power of Attorney), singing of---Scope and effect---Proceedings conducted by the counsel---Withdrawal of suit--- Sui…
2023 PLD 86 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
ABID HUSSAIN VS ADDITIONAL SESSIONS JUDGE, EX-OFFICIO JUSTICE OF PEACE, SARGODHA Criteria for determination of a court, detailed. S. 526---High Court may transfer cases or itself try it---Scope---Section 526, Cr.P.C., empowers the High Cour…
2023 PLD 97 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Malik MEHBOOB VS COMMISSIONER, RAWALPINDI Ss. 15 & 19---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Constitutional petition---Revenue record, correction of---Powers of Deputy Commissioner---Scope---Petitioner filed application under S. 19 of Punja…
2023 PLD 105 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
MUHAMMAD HAMZA SHAHBAZ SHARIF VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of Law and Justice arts. 199 & 255---Constitutional petition---Oath of office---Delay, causing of---Dispute was with regard to administering oath to newly e…
2023 PLC 46 NATIONAL-INDUSTRIAL-RELATIONS-COMMISSION
ZULFIQAR ALI VS CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY S.33---Redressal of individual grievances---Promotion---Scope---Petitioners assailed promotion of private respondents who were junior to them according to the seniority list---Contention of resp…
2023 PLC 58 NATIONAL-INDUSTRIAL-RELATIONS-COMMISSION
Syed TAHIR SHAH VS PRINTING CORPORATION OF PAKISTAN Promotion---Scope---Promotion of an employee takes place after fulfillment of basic requirements of length of service, ACRs, availability of vacancies, etc. S.33---Redressal of individual…
2023 PLC 226 NATIONAL-INDUSTRIAL-RELATIONS-COMMISSION
ABDUL MAJEED MIRZA VS MUSLIM COMMERCIAL BANK Ss. 33, 54 & 58---Recalling (setting aside) order of dismissal of appeal for non-prosecution of appellant---Condonation of delay---Knowledge of dismissal of appeal---Scope---Effective hearing of…
2023 PLC 244 NATIONAL-INDUSTRIAL-RELATIONS-COMMISSION
POST MASTER GENERAL CENTRAL PUNJAB VS MUHAMMAD JAMEEL SHAHID Contempt is to disobey or disregard an order, direction or process of Court Commission/Tribunal which a person is legally bound to obey ; a willful breach of an undertaking given…
2023 PLD 1 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
State VS WAQAR AHMAD Ss.172, 182, 185(1)& 526---High Court (Lahore) Rules and Orders, R.3, Chapter 26, Vol. III---Reference---Place of trial---Determination---Principle---Transfer of case---Dispute was with regard to trials of two criminal…
2023 PLD 60 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA through Secretary Forest Department at Peshawar VS GUL AMBAR Ss. 92 & 93---Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Land Revenue Act (XVII of 1967), S. 53---Specific Relief Act (I of 1877), Ss. 42, 54 & 55---Suit for declaration,…
2023 PLD 64 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
ASMAT VS SAHIB ROKHAN S. 115---Limitation Act (IX of 1908), Ss. 5 & 29---Civil revision---Limitation---Condonation of delay---Scope---Section 115 of C.P.C. provides its own limitation which is 90 days from the decision of the subordinate co…
2023 PLD 71 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
PROJECT DIRECTOR NEW THAKOT BRIDGE VS SHER ZADA Ss. 18 & 3(d)---Reference to Court---Delegation of authority by the Referee Court---Scope---After a reference is sent by the Collector, a court, as defined in section 3(d) of the Land Acquisit…
2023 PLD 78 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
BAKHT ALAM KHAN VS WASEEM KHAN S. 51 & O. XXI, R. 10---Execution of decree---Powers of Executing Court---Scope---Executing court cannot go beyond the decree and it has to execute the decree in terms in which it has been passed. S. 51 & O. X…
2023 PCrLJN 4 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
MOHAMMAD AQIL VS State S. 302(b)---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Art. 46---Qatl-i-amd---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Dying declaration---Scope---Accused was charged for committing murder of his brother-in-law (brother of w…
2023 PCrLJN 13 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
SHER ALAM VS STATE art. 161---Questions asked by the Court---Scope---No doubt, art. 161 of Qanun-e-Shahadat, 1984, empowered the Court to compel a witness to answer any question or to produce any document that the Court may think necessary…
2023 PCrLJN 17 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
JAVED KHAN VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Delay of one hour in lodging FIR---Scope---Accused were charged that they, in furtherance of their common intention committed…
2023 PCrLJN 36 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
RAFAQAT ALI VS AHMAD JAN, SHO, POLICE STATION INQALAB, PESHAWAR S. 22-a---Powers of Ex-officio Justice of Peace---accused arrested, while on bail---Scope---Petitioner sought registration of FIR against SHO (Station House Officer) on the gro…
2023 PCrLJN 48 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
FARMAN ULLAH VS State S. 497---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 302 & 34---Qatl-i-amd and common intention---Prompt FIR---Plea of juvenility---Scope---Accused along with his father and sister was charged for the murder of the husband of compla…
2023 PCrLJN 70 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
MUHAMMAD GULFAM VS State S. 302(b)---Qatl-i-amd---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Unnatural conduct of witnesses---Scope---Accused was charged for committing murder of his wife by firing---Conduct displayed by the witnesses wa…
2023 PCrLJN 73 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
ALMAS ULLAH DAD VS State Ss. 498 & 498-a---Pre-arrest bail petition---accused not present before the Court at the time of hearing of his pre-arrest bail petition---Effect---accused, after dismissal of his application for pre-arrest bail by…
2023 PCrLJN 76 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
Mst. NAVEEDA VS State S. 497(5)---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), S. 302---Qatl-i-amd---Bail, cancellation of---Absence of prosecution witness---Scope---Prosecution sought cancellation of bail granted to accused---Out of total 17 prosecution witn…
2023 PCrLJN 79 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
FAZAL HAMEED VS State Benefit of doubt---Scope---For giving benefit of doubt to an accused it is not necessary that there should be many circumstances creating doubts---If a single circumstance creates reasonable doubt in a prudent mind abo…
2023 PCrLJN 84 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
MEHMOOD HUSSAIN VS State S. 9(c)---Possession of narcotics---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Number of Witnesses---Scope---2400 kilograms of opium was recovered from the truck of the accused---Raiding party was consisting of m…
2023 PCrLJN 90 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
UMER HAYAT VS State Ss. 302, 324 & 34---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Motive not proved---Scope---Accused were charged for committing murder of the brother of the…
2023 PCrLJN 95 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
NAZAR KHAN alias NAN VS State S. 302(b)---Qatl-i-amd---Appreciation of evidence---Sentence, reduction in---Absconsion of accused---Scope---Accused was charged for committing murder of the deceased by firing---Record showed that the accused…
2023 PCrLJN 103 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
UMAR GUL VS State Ss. 302(b) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Scope---Accused were charged for committing murder of the uncle of the complainant by firing---Record showed that the role of c…
2023 PCrLJN 109 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
SHAH KHALID VS State S. 497---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 393, 394, 34 & 100---Attempt to commit robbery, voluntarily causing hurt in committing robbery, common intention, when the right of private defence of the body extends to causing d…
2023 PLD 82 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
KOHAT CEMENT FACTORY LIMITED VS LAW, PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS AND HUMAN RIGHTS DEPARTMENT, KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA Two interpretations---Principle---Where a provision in taxing statute can reasonably be interpreted in two ways, interpretation favou…
2023 YLRN 3 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
SHAH JEHAN VS GULISTAN S. 302(b)---Qatl-i-amd---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Delay of two hours in lodging the report---Scope---Accused was charged for committing murder of the son of complainant by firing---Unexplained del…
2023 YLRN 13 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
TARIQ MEHMOOD alias ASIF KHAN VS State Ss. 302(b), 324 & 34---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Scribe, who registered the case and prepared the injury sheet and inque…
2023 YLRN 18 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
ALAM RAHEEL alias ALAM RASEEL VS State S. 302(b)---Qatl-i-amd--- Appreciation of evidence---Weapon of offence and crime empties were recovered--- Reliance--- Scope--- Accused was charged for committing murder of two sons of the complainant…
2023 YLRN 24 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
MUSAFAR VS State Ss. 302, 324, 337-F(vi) & 34---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, ghayr-jaifah-munaqqillah, common intention---Appreciation of evidence---Ocular account---Scope---Accused was charged that he along with son of his sis…
2023 YLRN 28 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
MUHAMMAD WAQIF VS KHOOB NIAZ Ss. 302, 324 & 34---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 164---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, common intention---Appreciation of evidence--- Confessional statement, recording of---Scope---Accused w…
2023 YLRN 34 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
NIAMAT SHER VS State S. 516-a---Order for custody and disposal of property pending trial in certain cases---Scope---Vehicle belonging to appellant was seized while the accused was transporting contraband which was recovered from the secret…
2023 YLRN 36 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
ZAKI ULLAH VS State S.9(c)---Possession of narcotics---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Contradictions in the statements of witnesses---Scope---Prosecution case was that 55 packets of charas pukhta weighing 55000 grams conceale…
2023 YLRN 41 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
NASIM ULLAH KHAN VS State S. 497--- Penal Code (XLV of 1860), S.302---Qalt-i-amd---Bail---Scope--- Court while considering bail matter of an accused, involved in non-bailable offences, are to see as to whether the collected material are suf…
2023 YLRN 57 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
HASHMAT VS State S. 497---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 302, 148, 149 & 427---Qatl-i-amd, rioting, armed with deadly weapon, common object, mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees---Bail, refusal of---Absconsion of accused---A…
2023 YLRN 62 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
ZADDIN KHAN VS State S. 497---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 324, 452 & 34---Attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, house-trespass after pre-paration for hurt, assault or wrongful restraint, common intention---Bail, refusal of---Rule of consistency--…
2023 YLRN 71 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
SAJJAD KHAN VS State Benefit of doubt---Principle---If any reasonable doubt is created in the case of prosecution then its benefit will be extended to the accused. S. 9(c)---Possession of narcotics---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of do…
2023 YLRN 74 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
STATE through Advocate General Khyber Pakhtunkhwa VS SAJID MUNIR Witness---Credibility---Scope---Not necessary that there should be numerous infirmities; if there was one which impeached the credibility of the witness that might be made the…
2023 PLD 88 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
Mst. MUSARAT VS AZIZ AHMAD S. 7---Written Talaq---Effectiveness---Principle---Pronouncement of Talaq and its effectiveness in case of Talaq-Nama or oral Talaq reduced into writing, as the case may be, and other legal axillary and ancillary…
2023 PLC(CS)N 5 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
SIRAJ MUHAMMAD VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN appointment against reserved quota---Beneficial legislation---Retrospective effect---Scope---Petitioner was nine years of age when his father, while serving as a teacher, died in the year 2000---Comp…
2023 PLC(CS)N 11 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
MUHAMMAD OWAIS VS GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN through Ministry of National Food Security and Research, Islamabad Revised Family Assistance Package, 2014---Retrospective applicability ---Petitioner's father died on 05-07-2013; Question was that p…
2023 PLC(CS)N 34 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
Mst. SITWAT VS The CHAIRMAN BOARD OF GOVERNORS, PESHAWAR PUBLIC SCHOOL AND COLLEGE, WARSAK ROAD, PESHAWAR S.11---Res-judicata, principle of---Applicability---Scope---Constitutional petitions filed by employees of a School challenging abolis…
2023 PLD 99 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
ZEESHAN AFZAL VS QAISER ALI R.2---Elections act (XXXIII of 2017), Preamble---Local Council Elections---Controversy relating to polls---Rule 2 of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Local Councils (Conduct of Election) Rules, 2021 stipulated that in case…
2023 PLD 105 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
FAREED KHAN VS GUL DARAZ O. VI, R. 17---Specific Relief act (I of 1877), S. 42---Suit for declaration---amendment in plaint---Scope---Plaintiff instituted two separate suits however the second suit was rejected by the Trial Court on the gro…
2023 PLD 110 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT
SAEEDULLAH VS LAL SHER Temporary statute---Scope---Temporary nature of Ordinance means that it is unlikely to have any influence after it expires. Criminal Justice System---Juvenile offenders---Rights---Islamic Legal System stresses importa…
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