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2023 YLR 2051 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
MUHAMMAD BILAL VS State Benefit of doubt---Principle---There was no need of many doubts in the prosecution case rather any reasonable doubt arising out from the prosecution evidence would be sufficient for acquittal of the accused.
2023 YLR 2264 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
State VS FAROOQ KHAN Ss. 74, 32, 33(2), 2nd proviso & 48---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 516-A---Superdari (custody) of seized vehicle used in the trafficking of contraband--- Scope--- Anti-Narcotic Force (ANF) recovered contraban…
2023 YLR 2388 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
MUHAMMAD HANIF VS State S. 9(c)---Control of Narcotic Substances (Government Analysts) Rules, 2001, R. 6---Possession of narcotics---Appreciation of evidence---Prosecution case was that 27 kilograms charas was recovered from the vehicle dri…
2023 YLR 2388 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
MUHAMMAD HANIF VS State S. 9(c)---Possession of narcotics---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Non-production of relevant register maintained by Police---Effect---Prosecution case was that 27 kilograms charas was recovered from t…
2023 YLR 2388 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
MUHAMMAD HANIF VS State S. 9(c)---Possession of narcotics---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Safe custody of sample parcels---Contradictory statements---Prosecution case was that 27 kilograms charas was recovered from the vehic…
2023 YLR 2388 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
MUHAMMAD HANIF VS State Benefit of doubt---Principle---If there is a single circumstance which creates a reasonable doubt regarding the prosecution case, the same would be sufficient to give benefit of the same to accused.
2023 YLR 2388 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
MUHAMMAD HANIF VS State S. 9(c)---Possession of narcotics---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Non-association of private mashir from the area---Effect---Prosecution case was that 27 kilograms charas was recovered from the vehicl…
2023 YLR 2588 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
SAQIB MUHAMMAD VS State Ss. 297, 320 & 427---Causing death by rash and negligent driving and causing damage to property---Appreciation of evidence---Necessary witness---Evidence non-recording of---Four persons lost their lives in an acciden…
2023 YLR 2637 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
GHULAM DASTAGIR VS ALLAH BAKSH Ss. 9 & 54---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), S.115---Suit for recovery of possession and injunction---Summary proceedings, applicability of---Pre-conditions---Concurrent findings of facts by two Courts below…
2023 YLR 2683 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
Sheikh AMEEN-UR-RASHEED VS Shaikh MAMON UR RASHEED O. XXI. Rr. 54(2), 66, 85, 86 & 92---Suit for declaration and possession through partition decree---Execution petition---Auction proceedings---Sale by public auction---Procedure, non-observ…
2023 PLD 27 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
SARDAR MUHAMMAD VS GOVERNMENT OF BALOCHISTAN through Secretary Home and Tribal Affairs Department, Quetta art. 175---Establishment and jurisdiction of Courts---Trichotomy of powers---Scope---Our system is based on trichotomy of power and ea…
2023 PLD 27 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
SARDAR MUHAMMAD VS GOVERNMENT OF BALOCHISTAN through Secretary Home and Tribal Affairs Department, Quetta art. 203---High Court to superintend subordinate Courts---Scope---High Court under art. 203 of the Constitution being the custodian of…
2023 PLD 27 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
SARDAR MUHAMMAD VS GOVERNMENT OF BALOCHISTAN through Secretary Home and Tribal Affairs Department, Quetta S. 4---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Prohibition of private money lending---Protection from harassment---Scope---Petitioner sou…
2023 CLD 247 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
SABIR TRADERS SOLE PROPRIETORSHIP VS NATIONAL BANK OF PAKISTAN S. 22(1), (2)---Limitation Act (IX of 1908), Ss. 5 & 29(2)---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O. XLIII, R. 3---Appeal---Statutory limitation---Condonation of delay---Advance no…
2023 CLD 1161 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
NOVATEX LIMITED AND ANOTHER VS Ss. 280, 281, 282, 283 & 285---Scheme of arrangements, approval of---Commercial wisdom---Scope---Petitioners sought approval of Scheme of Arrangement---Validity---Where all requisite formalities are complied w…
2023 CLD 1238 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
WELCOME PRINCE RICE MILL VS NATIONAL BANK OF PAKISTAN S. 19---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), S. 51(e), proviso, O. XXI, Rr. 37 & 66---Execution of decree---arrest of judgment debtor---Statutory notice, non-issuance of---Effect---Petition…
2023 PLD 31 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
ALLAHI DAD VS GOVERNMENT OF BALOCHISTAN art. 16---Right to assembly---Scope---Peaceful protests in order to highlight genuine grievances of any segment of society are considered as healthy signs of a vibrant society but such protests or sit…
2023 PTD 662 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
COLLECTOR MODEL CUSTOMS COLLECTORATE OF GAWADAR VS Syed SHABBIR AHMED SHAH S.196---Reference---Redemption fine---Release of vehicle---Tampered chasis number---Authorities were aggrieved of release of vehicle which was confiscated for smuggl…
2023 PTD 1695 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
The DIRECTOR DIRECTORATE OF INTELLIGENCE AND INVESTIGATION CUSTOMS FBR, QUETTA VS INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS HUB Ss.25-a, 29 & 196---Valuation of goods---Jurisdiction---Tare weight---Determination---Release of goods---Dispute was with regard to…
2023 PLD 36 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
FAZAL MUHAMMAD VS MANAGING DIRECTOR SUI GAS, QUETTA S. 6---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Constitutional petition---Procedure for complaints and suits for default before Gas Utility Courts---Alternate remedy---Scope---Case of petition…
2023 PLD 40 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
Mst. KHAN BIBI (widow) VS BIBI RAHIMA art. 71---Oral evidence must be direct---Scope---Oral evidence must, in all cases, be direct---Where it refers to a fact which could be heard, it must be proved by the evidence of a person who says he h…
2023 PLD 40 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
Mst. KHAN BIBI (widow) VS BIBI RAHIMA S. 6---Specific Relief act (I of 1877), Ss. 42, 8 & 54---Suit for declaration, correction of mutation entries, partition, possession and permanent injunction---What may be transferred---Scope---Plaintif…
2023 PLD 40 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
Mst. KHAN BIBI (widow) VS BIBI RAHIMA art. 71---Specific Relief act (I of 1877), Ss. 42, 8 & 54---Oral Will---Proof---Suit for declaration, correction of mutation entries, partition, possession and permanent injunction---Oral evidence must…
2023 PLD 46 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
SAMIULLAH VS SPECIAL JUDGE ANTI RAPE/SESSIONS JUDGE, SARIAB DIVISION S. 540---Power to summon material witness or examine person present---Scope---Section 540, Cr.P.C. deals with three kinds of cases and invests the Court with the power to…
2023 PLD 46 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
SAMIULLAH VS SPECIAL JUDGE ANTI RAPE/SESSIONS JUDGE, SARIAB DIVISION S. 540---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Art. 133---Order of examinations---Power to summon material witness or examine person present---Scope---Examination of a witness by…
2023 PLD 46 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
SAMIULLAH VS SPECIAL JUDGE ANTI RAPE/SESSIONS JUDGE, SARIAB DIVISION S. 540---Power to summon material witness or examine person present---Scope---Section 540, Cr.P.C., is divided into two parts---First part is discretionary, while the seco…
2023 PLD 46 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
SAMIULLAH VS SPECIAL JUDGE ANTI RAPE/SESSIONS JUDGE, SARIAB DIVISION S. 540---Power to summon material witness or examine person present---Re-calling for cross-examination---Scope---Engagement of new advocate is no ground for recalling any…
2023 PLD 1 SUPREME-COURT
ALI ASJAD MALHI VS Ms. Syeda NOSHEEN IFTIKHAR S. 9(1)---Power of the Election Commission ('the Commission') to declare a poll void---Order for fresh elections in the whole constituency or partial re-poll---Factors that ought to be kept in m…
2023 PLD 1 SUPREME-COURT
ALI ASJAD MALHI VS Ms. Syeda NOSHEEN IFTIKHAR S. 9(1)---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 218(3)---Decision of the Election Commission (ECP)---Interference by Superior Courts---Grounds---Only limited grounds exist for interfering with ECP's de…
2023 PLD 1 SUPREME-COURT
ALI ASJAD MALHI VS Ms. Syeda NOSHEEN IFTIKHAR S. 9(1)---Power of the Election Commission ('the Commission') to declare a poll void---Scope---Election of the result 'materially affected'---"Materially affected" test---Scope---In deciding whe…
2023 PLD 1 SUPREME-COURT
ALI ASJAD MALHI VS Ms. Syeda NOSHEEN IFTIKHAR Ss. 9(1) & 154---Power of the Election Commission ('the Commission') to declare a poll void---Order for fresh elections in the whole constituency instead of partial re-poll---Firing and incident…
2023 PLD 190 SUPREME-COURT
DEAN/CHIEF EXECUTIVE, GOMAL MEDICAL COLLEGE, MEDICAL TEACHING INSTITUTION, D.I. KHAN VS MUHAMMAD ARMAGHAN KHAN arts. 212(2), proviso & 212(3)---Provincial Service Tribunals (Extension of Provisions of the Constitution) act (XXXII of 1974),…
2023 PLD 190 SUPREME-COURT
DEAN/CHIEF EXECUTIVE, GOMAL MEDICAL COLLEGE, MEDICAL TEACHING INSTITUTION, D.I. KHAN VS MUHAMMAD ARMAGHAN KHAN Preamble---Sindh Service Tribunals Act (XV of 1973), S. 3-B [as amended by the Sindh Service Tribunals (Amendment) Act, 1991]---K…
2023 PLD 207 SUPREME-COURT
FEDERAL BOARD OF REVENUE through Chairman, Islamabad VS HUB POWER COMPANY LTD. S. 3---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 185(3)---Petition for leave to appeal filed before the Supreme Court without exhausting the available remedy of filing an I…
2023 PLD 209 SUPREME-COURT
NAEEM TAHIR VS JAHAN SHAH alias SHAH JEHAN O.XVIII, R.1---Concise statements and supplemental proceedings---Practice of filing documents through a concise statement or an application without any explanation---Supreme Court deprecated such p…
2023 PLD 211 SUPREME-COURT
MEERA SHAFI VS ALI ZAFAR Preamble---Procedures provided under the Civil Procedure Code, 1908 ('C.P.C.')---Scope---Courts are not to act upon the principle that every procedure is to be taken to be prohibited unless it is expressly provided…
2023 PLD 211 SUPREME-COURT
MEERA SHAFI VS ALI ZAFAR art. 132(2)---Cross-examination, right of---Scope---Right of cross-examination is neither unlimited nor unbridled---When the judge observes that the right of cross-examination is being abused by asking questions whi…
2023 PLD 211 SUPREME-COURT
MEERA SHAFI VS ALI ZAFAR O. XVIII, R. 4 & S. 151---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Art. 164---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts. 9, 10A & 37(d)---Evidence of witness, recording of---Use of video conferencing---Permissibility---Evidence of a wit…
2023 PLD 211 SUPREME-COURT
MEERA SHAFI VS ALI ZAFAR Updating construction of statutes, principle of---Scope of the principle of updating construction of statutes stated with respect to technological changes/advancements.
2023 PLD 211 SUPREME-COURT
MEERA SHAFI VS ALI ZAFAR Determining legislative intent---Use of modern technology---Best way to assess the legislative intent of a law is to examine its purpose today by considering its objectives, the goals, the interests, the values, the…
2023 PLD 229 SUPREME-COURT
DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR EVACUEE TRUST PROPERTY, RAWALPINDI VS SAKHI MUHAMMAD KIANI S. 6---Katchi abadi land---Proprietary rights---Photograph of Provincial Chief Minister featuring on ownership documents distributed amongst katchi abadi dwelle…
2023 PLD 229 SUPREME-COURT
DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR EVACUEE TRUST PROPERTY, RAWALPINDI VS SAKHI MUHAMMAD KIANI Ss. 6 & 7---Punjab Katchi Abadis Act (VIII of 1992), S. 6(1)---Katchi abadi land---Proprietary rights---Sub-Registrar refused to register sale deeds, leases and…
2023 PLD 236 SUPREME-COURT
SADIQ POULTRY (PVT.) LTD. VS GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA art. 199---Suo motu powers of the High Court---Scope---Prices and quality of dairy and poultry products---Fixing prices and policy matters---Domain of the Executive---High Court…
2023 PLD 241 SUPREME-COURT
COMMISSIONER INLAND REVENUE, LAHORE VS SUI NORTHERN GAS PIPELINE LIMITED, LAHORE S. 2(9)---Judgment---Scope---Pronouncement of a judgment does not simply mean the result of the case but also the reasons thereof---Simply announcing the resul…
2023 PLD 241 SUPREME-COURT
COMMISSIONER INLAND REVENUE, LAHORE VS SUI NORTHERN GAS PIPELINE LIMITED, LAHORE S. 2(9), O.XX, Rr. 1(2), 3 & O. XLI, Rr. 30, 31---Supreme Court Rules, 1980, O.X, R.1---Judgment/decree---Date of judgment/ decree to be mentioned by the court…
2023 PLD 241 SUPREME-COURT
COMMISSIONER INLAND REVENUE, LAHORE VS SUI NORTHERN GAS PIPELINE LIMITED, LAHORE Belated writing of judgments by Judges of Superior Courts---Supreme Court deprecated such practice and observed that not inscribing the date when a judgment is…
2023 PLD 252 SUPREME-COURT
ABID AMIN VS NATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY BUREAU Ss. 31-C & 31-D---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 18 & Preamble---'Restructuring' and 'rescheduling' of loans under financial agreements---Prior approval of State Bank of Pakistan---Scope of Sectio…
2023 PLD 260 SUPREME-COURT
SHAUKAT ALI VS STATE LIFE INSURANCE CORPORATION OF PAKISTAN through Chairman Practice of using honorifics or prefixes such as "honourable/ hon'ble" and "learned" while referring to the High Courts or Supreme Court---Propriety---Supreme Cour…
2023 PLD 265 SUPREME-COURT
F.I.A. through Director General, FIA VS Syed HAMID ALI SHAH Ss. 561-a & 154---Inherent power of High Court---Quashment of FIR or investigation of criminal case---Scope---High Court has no power under Section 561-a, Cr.P.C. to quash an FIR o…
2023 PLD 265 SUPREME-COURT
F.I.A. through Director General, FIA VS Syed HAMID ALI SHAH S. 154---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199(1)(a)(ii)---Quashment of FIR or investigation of criminal case---Scope---Constitutional jurisdiction of the High Court---Registration of…
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