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2023 SCMR 201 SUPREME-COURT
SHAHRAY KHAN (DECEASED) VS QADIR BAKHSH (DECEASED) S. 3---Female limited owner of immovable property having no right to further alienate the same---Female owner (widow) despite being not competent to transfer the property, transferred the s…
2023 SCMR 206 SUPREME-COURT
YASIR AFTAB VS IRFAN GULL R. 18(3), proviso, Clause (ii)--- Local government elections---Nomination papers, scrutiny of---Declaration of assets in nomination papers---Substantial defect---Discretion of Returning Officer to allow such defect…
2023 SCMR 206 SUPREME-COURT
YASIR AFTAB VS IRFAN GULL R. 16(3)---Sindh Local Government Act (XLII of 2013), S. 23---Local government elections---Nomination papers---Declaration of assets at pre-election and post-election stage---Scope---Candidate is requirement to mak…
2023 SCMR 217 SUPREME-COURT
DISTRICT EDUCATION OFFICER (FEMALE), CHARSADDA VS SONIA BEGUM S. 17---Pakistan Citizenship Rules, 1952, R. 23---Civil service---Domicile specific posts---Domicile certificate to be given preference over address on Computerised National Iden…
2023 SCMR 217 SUPREME-COURT
DISTRICT EDUCATION OFFICER (FEMALE), CHARSADDA VS SONIA BEGUM Black's Law Dictionary (Ninth Edition), at page 558; Words and Phrases (Permanent Edition), Volume 13, at pages 425 - 426; Corpus Juris Secundum, Volume XXV, at pages 2-3; Black'…
2023 SCMR 217 SUPREME-COURT
DISTRICT EDUCATION OFFICER (FEMALE), CHARSADDA VS SONIA BEGUM S. 3---Posts of Primary School Teachers, appointment of---Legitimate expectation, doctrine of---Scope and applicability---Respondents (candidates) were allowed to compete in the…
2023 SCMR 217 SUPREME-COURT
DISTRICT EDUCATION OFFICER (FEMALE), CHARSADDA VS SONIA BEGUM S. 17---Pakistan Citizenship Rules, 1952, R. 23---Domicile, acquisition of---'Domicile' and 'residence'---Distinction---Principles regarding acquisition of a domicile and the dis…
2023 SCMR 233 SUPREME-COURT
KANWAR ARIF ALI KHAN VS DANISH ALI O. XXXIII, R. 7---Inherent powers of the Supreme Court---Scope---application by a person who is not a party in the proceedings before the High Court---Person who is not a party to a suit or a proceeding in…
2023 SCMR 236 SUPREME-COURT
SDO, PESCO DAUDZAI SUB-DIVISION RING ROAD, PESHAWAR VS WADAN SHER O. XXIX, R. 1---Suit by or against Corporations---Subscription and verification of pleadings---Board resolution, lack of---Curable defect---Even in the absence of a Board Res…
2023 SCMR 236 SUPREME-COURT
SDO, PESCO DAUDZAI SUB-DIVISION RING ROAD, PESHAWAR VS WADAN SHER O. XXIX, R. 1---Government owned public limited company [Peshawar Electric Supply Company (PESCO)]---Officials of the company (PESCO) sued in their personal capacity---Board…
2023 SCMR 236 SUPREME-COURT
SDO, PESCO DAUDZAI SUB-DIVISION RING ROAD, PESHAWAR VS WADAN SHER O. XXIX, R. 1---Suit by or against Corporations---Subscription and verification of pleadings---Board resolution, requirement of---Scope--- When a company is sued or is initia…
2023 SCMR 241 SUPREME-COURT
SAGHIR AHMED VS State S. 377--- Commission of sodomy with a minor--- Reappraisal of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Report of Forensic Science Agency and medical office not giving definite finding of sodomy---Victim was medically examined on…
2023 SCMR 241 SUPREME-COURT
SAGHIR AHMED VS State Evidence---Interpretation favorable to the accused---If two views are possible on the evidence adduced in the case, one indicating the guilt of accused and other to his innocence, the view favourable to the accused is…
2023 SCMR 241 SUPREME-COURT
SAGHIR AHMED VS State Benefit of doubt---Scope---For the accused to be afforded the right of benefit of the doubt, it is not necessary that there should be many circumstances creating uncertainty and if there is only one doubt, the benefit…
2023 SCMR 241 SUPREME-COURT
SAGHIR AHMED VS State S. 377---Commission of sodomy with a minor---Mere heinousness of the offence, if not proved to the hilt, is not a ground to punish an accused.
2023 SCMR 246 SUPREME-COURT
Mst. TAYYEBA AMBAREEN VS SHAFQAT ALI KIYANI S. 2(viii)(a)---Family Courts Act (XXXV of 1964), S. 5 & Sched.---Suit for dissolution of marriage on the ground of cruelty---Physical and mental cruelty---Meaning of cruelty and the approach to b…
2023 SCMR 246 SUPREME-COURT
Mst. TAYYEBA AMBAREEN VS SHAFQAT ALI KIYANI S. 5 & Sched.---Suit for restitution of conjugal rights---Approach to be adopted by Courts when deciding such suit---Husband, duty of---Scope---When a husband claims restitution of conjugal rights…
2023 SCMR 246 SUPREME-COURT
Mst. TAYYEBA AMBAREEN VS SHAFQAT ALI KIYANI appellate Court, jurisdiction of---Scope---appellate Court to give due deference to findings of Trial Court based on evidence---Scope and purpose of appellate jurisdiction stated.
2023 SCMR 261 SUPREME-COURT
PAKISTAN TELECOMMUNICATION COMPANY LTD. VS COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, KARACHI Retrospective application of a new law/provision---Scope---New provision relating to a rebuttable presumption---Rebuttable presumption falls in the realm of the proced…
2023 SCMR 261 SUPREME-COURT
PAKISTAN TELECOMMUNICATION COMPANY LTD. VS COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, KARACHI Ss. 19, 19a & 33--- Equipment imported by Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd. (PTCL)---Over-paid customs duty, refund of---Concessionary rate of customs duty under…
2023 SCMR 261 SUPREME-COURT
PAKISTAN TELECOMMUNICATION COMPANY LTD. VS COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, KARACHI Prospective/retrospective application of a new law---Scope---Any new law, which deals with the procedure and does not affect the rights or liabilities of the parties,…
2023 SCMR 261 SUPREME-COURT
PAKISTAN TELECOMMUNICATION COMPANY LTD. VS COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS, KARACHI Tax statute---While construing a tax law, the language used in it is not to be either stretched in favour of the State or narrowed in favour of the taxpayer.
2023 SCMR 273 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD IQBAL VS NASRULLAH Special and general law---Wherever there is a special and general law applicable to a certain matter, the special law will prevail.
2023 SCMR 273 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD IQBAL VS NASRULLAH Ss. 2(d), 5(1) & 13(2)---Pre-emption suit, filing of---Suit filed by pre-emptor prematurely before completion of sale of property---Section 5 of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pre-emption Act, 1987 clearly stated that "t…
2023 SCMR 273 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD IQBAL VS NASRULLAH S. 54---agreement to sell---Scope---agreement to sell does not create any title or claim over the property; it also does not create ownership in the land and, as such, a person in whose favour such an agreement i…
2023 SCMR 279 SUPREME-COURT
The COMMISSIONER, INLAND REVENUE, KARACHI VS ATTOCK CEMENT PAKISTAN LIMITED, KARACHI amendment in a provision/section of a statute---Scope---amendment is generally made to bring about a change in the state of law; however, it is not so when…
2023 SCMR 279 SUPREME-COURT
The COMMISSIONER, INLAND REVENUE, KARACHI VS ATTOCK CEMENT PAKISTAN LIMITED, KARACHI S. 7---Input tax, adjustment of---Scope and nature---Section 7 of the Sales Tax Act, 1990 by nature is a beneficial provision of law providing a facility t…
2023 SCMR 279 SUPREME-COURT
The COMMISSIONER, INLAND REVENUE, KARACHI VS ATTOCK CEMENT PAKISTAN LIMITED, KARACHI S. 7(1)--- Input tax, adjustment of---Whether any time limit for adjustment of input tax---Held, that section 7(1) of the Sales Tax Act, 1990 does not stip…
2023 SCMR 279 SUPREME-COURT
The COMMISSIONER, INLAND REVENUE, KARACHI VS ATTOCK CEMENT PAKISTAN LIMITED, KARACHI Ss. 7(1) & 66---Import of new machinery and spare parts---Input tax, refund/adjustment of---Time and manner of claiming the adjustment of input tax---Appel…
2023 SCMR 291 SUPREME-COURT
CHIEF ENGINEER, GUJRANWALA ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY (GEPCO), GUJRANWALA VS KHALID MEHMOOD Rr. 5(iii) & 5(iv)---Disciplinary proceedings---Regular inquiry---Scope---No rigid or definitive rule that in each and every case after issuing show cau…
2023 SCMR 291 SUPREME-COURT
CHIEF ENGINEER, GUJRANWALA ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY (GEPCO), GUJRANWALA VS KHALID MEHMOOD Void order---No relaxation is available in law to approach the court after deep slumber or inordinate delay under the garb of labeling an order or actio…
2023 SCMR 291 SUPREME-COURT
CHIEF ENGINEER, GUJRANWALA ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY (GEPCO), GUJRANWALA VS KHALID MEHMOOD Scope---Intention of the provisions of the law of limitation is not to give a right where there is none, but to impose a bar after a specified period, a…
2023 SCMR 291 SUPREME-COURT
CHIEF ENGINEER, GUJRANWALA ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY (GEPCO), GUJRANWALA VS KHALID MEHMOOD Court is obliged to independently advert to the question of limitation and determine the same and to take cognizance of delay without limitation having…
2023 SCMR 291 SUPREME-COURT
CHIEF ENGINEER, GUJRANWALA ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY (GEPCO), GUJRANWALA VS KHALID MEHMOOD S. 42---Penalty imposed by department challenged by employee before the Labour Court---Acceptance of dues by employee---Whether employee estopped from c…
2023 SCMR 291 SUPREME-COURT
CHIEF ENGINEER, GUJRANWALA ELECTRIC POWER COMPANY (GEPCO), GUJRANWALA VS KHALID MEHMOOD Law of limitation reduces an effect of extinguishment of a right of a party when significant lapses occur---When no sufficient cause for such lapses, de…
2023 SCMR 301 SUPREME-COURT
Nemo f VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN S. 3(2)---Civil Servants Act (LXXI of 1973), S. 2(1)(b)---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Employees of National Bank of Pakistan (NBP)---Recourse to writ jurisdiction of the High Court in service matter…
2023 SCMR 301 SUPREME-COURT
Nemo f VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN S. 3(2)---Civil Servants Act (LXXI of 1973), S. 2(1)(b)---Employees of National Bank of Pakistan (NBP)---As per section 3(2) of the National Bank of Pakistan Ordinance, 1949, NBP is a body corporate, and its…
2023 SCMR 301 SUPREME-COURT
Nemo f VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN S. 2(1)(b)---Government Servants (Efficiency and Discipline) Rules 1973, R. 2(1)--- Government Servants (Conduct) Rules 1964, R. 3(1)(b)---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 21 & 161---Term 'public servant' as pr…
2023 SCMR 306 SUPREME-COURT
GULL DIN VS State R. 4(2)---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 497---Bail---Seized narcotics to be dispatched for analysis 'not later than seventy-two hours of the seizure' [Rule 4(2) of the Control of Narcotic Substances (Government A…
2023 SCMR 308 SUPREME-COURT
AMIR FARAZ VS State S. 497(5)---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), S. 302(b)---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 185(3)--- Qatl-i-amd--- Bail, cancellation of---Complainant lodged the report within one hour and twenty minutes of the occurrence, when th…
2023 SCMR 308 SUPREME-COURT
AMIR FARAZ VS State S. 497---Bail---Ocular account---Corroboratory evidence---At bail stage, corroboratory piece of evidence, if missing, cannot discard the ocular account recorded on the day of occurrence.
2023 SCMR 308 SUPREME-COURT
AMIR FARAZ VS State Ss. 497(5) & 156---Bail, cancellation of---Opinion of Investigating Officer, relevance of---Opinion of the Investigating Officer has some persuasive value, if the same is based upon a strong and concrete material---Court…
2023 SCMR 308 SUPREME-COURT
AMIR FARAZ VS State S. 497(5)---Bail, cancellation of---Commencement of trial---No hard and fast rule can be laid down that bail should not be cancelled merely for the reason that the trial has commenced or is likely to commence because eve…
2023 SCMR 316 SUPREME-COURT
SANA JAMALI VS MUJEEB QAMAR art. 199---Constitutional jurisdiction of the High Court---Scope and object---Object of proceedings under article 199 of the Constitution is the enforcement of a right and not the establishment of a legal right a…
2023 SCMR 316 SUPREME-COURT
SANA JAMALI VS MUJEEB QAMAR 'Ubi jus ubi remedium' (wherever there is a right, there is a remedy)---Scope---Said maxim is an elementary principle of law and any person having a right has a corresponding remedy to institute suits in a Court…
2023 SCMR 316 SUPREME-COURT
SANA JAMALI VS MUJEEB QAMAR S. 14---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Exhaustion of remedies, doctrine of---Scope---Constitutional petition filed before the High Court to challenge a decree of Family Court instead of resorting to the rem…
2023 SCMR 316 SUPREME-COURT
SANA JAMALI VS MUJEEB QAMAR O. V, R. 20--- Substituted service--- Scope--- Legislature has conferred a wide ranging freedom of choice and options under Order V, Rule 20, C.P.C. as to how the substituted service is to be effected to ensure s…
2023 SCMR 325 SUPREME-COURT
Syed ASAD HUSSAIN VS Syed GHULAM KHITAB Ss.2(d), 13(1)(a) & 31---Suit for pre-emption---Talb-i-Muwathibat---Pre-emptor's knowledge of sale prior to registration of sale deed---Evidence to be led by vendee regarding pre-emptor's knowledge of…
2023 SCMR 330 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD UMAR WAQAS BARKAT ALI VS State S. 498---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 185(3)---Pre-arrest bail---Merits of the case---Merits of the case can be touched upon while adjudicating extraordinary relief of pre-arrest bail.
2023 SCMR 330 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD UMAR WAQAS BARKAT ALI VS State Ss. 498 & 497(2)--- Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 337-A(i), 337-A(ii), 337-F(v), 354, 148 & 149--- Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 185(3)--- Murderous assault---Ad interim pre-arrest bail, confirmation…
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