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2021 PLC(CS) 1085 SUPREME-COURT
CONTROLLER GENERAL OF ACCOUNTS VS FAZIL AHMAD, DAO EC (C&W DIVISION HANGU) art. 90---Power conferred on the Federal Government in a provision of a statute/Rules---Connotation---Wherever such a power was conferred on the Federal Government,…
2021 PLC(CS) 1099 SUPREME-COURT
CHAIRMAN PAKISTAN ORDNANCE FACTORIES BOARD, WAH CANTT. VS SHAHZAD AMIN Regln. 371-a---Pensionary benefits, entitlement to---Minimum years of service to qualify for pension---Respondent had rendered 13 years of service---Service Tribunal, wh…
2021 PLC(CS) 1120 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA VS LATIF ULLAH KHAN Posts of Primary School Teachers---Recruitment process---Proposed policy of five extra marks for field experience---Contention of respondent-candidate that he should be appointed against…
2021 PLC(CS) 1140 SUPREME-COURT
FAYYAZ ULLAH KHAN VS PESHAWAR HIGH COURT, PESHAWAR S.6---District and Sessions Judge---Charges of corruption and living beyond ostensible legal means---Compulsory retirement---Subordinate Judiciary Tribunal had rightly noted that reply of t…
2021 PLC(CS) 1168 SUPREME-COURT
UNIVERSITY OF MALAKAND VS Dr. ALAM ZEB Statutory obligation/right---Scope---No estoppel existed against a law---Inherent power and doctrine of estoppel could not be applied to defeat the provisions of statute---As a rule of evidence estoppe…
2021 PLC(CS) 157 SUPREME-COURT
SHAHBAZ GARMENTS (PVT.) LTD. VS GOVERNMENT OF SINDH Ss. 2(9)(e), 5, 20(1) & 75---Provincial Employees' Social Security Ordinance (X of 1965) [since repealed], Ss. 2(8)(f), 20 & 71---Provincial Employees' Social Security (Contributions) Rule…
2021 PLC(CS) 191 SUPREME-COURT
ALLIED BANK LIMITED VS ZULFIQAR ALI SHAR S.O. 12(3)---Termination of employment in simpliciter---Scope---Employee convicted and sentenced for a criminal offence subsequently acquitted by the Appellate Court---Employer terminating services o…
2021 PLC(CS) 1194 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA VS MUHAMMAD YOUNAS Ss. 2(b) & 3---Project posts---Contractual employees---Question as to whether project employees appointed to a project which was converted to the regular budget after the cut-off date of t…
2021 PLC(CS) 1212 SUPREME-COURT
SENIOR GENERAL MANAGER/CEO, PAKISTAN RAILWAYS HEADQUARTERS, LAHORE VS ABDUL RAUF SHAMOON Railway engine driver---Violation of red signal causing an accident---Dismissal from service---Tribunal by way of impugned judgment converted the major…
2021 PLC(CS) 1259 SUPREME-COURT
Dr. IQRAR AHMAD KHAN VS Dr. MUHAMMAD ASHRAF Ss.11(8), 14(3) & 14(6)---University of agriculture Faisalabad Conduct of Business Rules of the Syndicate, 1976, R. 3---Post of Vice-Chancellor---appointment---appointing authority (Chief Minister…
2021 PLC(CS) 1300 SUPREME-COURT
The CHAIRMAN BOARD OF GOVERNORS, MEDICAL TEACHING INSTITUTE (MTI) LADY READING HOSPITAL, (LRH), PESHAWAR VS Syed ROIDAR SHAH, CLINICAL TECHNICIAN (PHARMACY), MEDICAL TEACHING INSTITUTE (MTI), LADY READING HOSPITAL (LRH), PESHAWAR Deputation…
2021 PLC(CS) 1343 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD AFZAL VS SECRETARY ESTABLISHMENT DIVISION ISLAMABAD Ss. 2(f), 4 & Preamble---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts. 240 & 242---Sacked Employees (Reinstatement) Act, 2010, ('Act of 2010'), vires of---Said Act circumvented the constitution…
2021 PLC(CS) 1439 SUPREME-COURT
ABDUL HAMEED VS WATER AND POWER DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY arts. 184 & 185---Judgments/orders of the Supreme Court---Scope---When there was a categorical pronouncement of the Supreme Court, which was specific in nature, the same could not be exp…
2021 PLC(CS) 1487 SUPREME-COURT
The CHIEF POSTMASTER GENERAL, POST OFFICE, MULTAN VS HAMEED-UD-DIN Dismissal from service---Misappropriation and embezzlement---Service Tribunal converting penalty for dismissal from service into stoppage of increment for one year without c…
2021 PLC(CS) 1383 SUPREME-COURT
KHUSHDIL KHAN MALIK VS SECRETARY, ESTABLISHMENT DIVISION CABINET BLOCK, ISLAMABAD Ss. 3 & 9---Civil Servants (Appointment, Promotion and Transfer) Rules, 1973, Pt. II--- Promotion on the basis of 'Time Scale Formula'---Scope--- Civil Servan…
2021 PLC(CS) 1427 SUPREME-COURT
FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through General Manager/Operations Pakistan Railways, Headquarters Office, Lahore VS SHAH MOHAMMAD Pension, right of---Scope---Government servant, who retired from service qualifying for retirement benefits, including…
2021 PLC(CS) 1531 SUPREME-COURT
PROVINCE OF PUNJAB through Special Secretary, Specialized Healthcare and Medical Education Department, Lahore VS KHADIM HUSSAIN ABBASI Ss. 4(1)(b)(iv) & 4(1)(b)(iii)---Punjab Service Tribunals Act (IX of 1974), S. 5(1)---Misconduct, absence…
2021 PLC(CS) 1559 SUPREME-COURT
DIRECTOR POSTAL LIFE INSURANCE, LAHORE VS SHAKEEL AHMAD R. 4(1)(a)---Negligence in maintaining official record---Penalty of reduction in pay scale by four steps for five years reduced to minor penalty of 'censure'---Inquiry Officer had not…
2021 PLC(CS) 1583 SUPREME-COURT
FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Establishment, Islamabad VS M. Y. LABIB-UR-REHMAN arts. 199 & 212---Matter relating to terms and conditions of service---Exclusive jurisdiction of administrative tribunals and ouster of jurisdiction…
2021 PLC(CS) 1595 SUPREME-COURT
CHIEF SECRETARY, GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB, LAHORE VS Ms. SHAMIM USMAN arts. 212 & 199---Punjab Service Tribunals act (IX of 1974), S. 4(1)(b)---Service matter---Terms and conditions of service of a civil servant---Bar of jurisdiction of the Hig…
2021 PLD 639 SUPREME-COURT
JUSTICE QAZI FAEZ ISA VS The PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN O. XXVI, R. 1---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 188---Review jurisdiction of the Supreme Court---Scope---Power of review was limited in scope---Consequently, it must be exercised by all the…
2021 PLD 667 SUPREME-COURT
JUSTICE QAZI FAEZ ISA VS The PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN arts. 188 & 209(5)(b)---Review petitions before the Supreme Court challenging the directions given to the tax authorities by the Supreme Court to conduct an inquiry into the foreign assets…
2021 PLC 67 SUPREME-COURT
MARTIN DOW MARKER LTD., QUETTA VS ASADULLAH KHAN Sched., S.O. 15---Employees reinstated in service refusing to report for employer's duty---Lack of bona fides of employees in pursuing their grievance before the courts---After having succeed…
2021 PLC 100 QUETTA-HIGH-COURT-BALOCHISTAN
SHAHEEN AIRPORT SERVICES VS NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS COMMISSION S.2(xvii)---Sindh Industrial Relations Act (XXIX of 2013), S.2(xvi)---Shaheen Airport Services ('the petitioner')---Not a charitable organization---Claim of the petitioner…
2021 PLC 148 SUPREME-COURT
PESCO, WAPDA HOUSE VS ISHFAQ KHAN S.48(4)---Constitution of Pakistan, Art.199---Labour Court, jurisdiction of---Scope---Policy, notification or an executive order---Power to strike down a policy, notification or an executive order if it inf…
2021 PLC 157 SUPREME-COURT
SHAHBAZ GARMENTS (PVT.) LTD. VS GOVERNMENT OF SINDH through Secretary Labour and Human Resource Department, Karachi Ss. 2(9)(e), 5, 20(1) & 75---Provincial Employees' Social Security Ordinance (X of 1965) [since repealed], Ss. 2(8)(f), 20 &…
2021 PLC 191 SUPREME-COURT
ALLIED BANK LIMITED VS ZULFIQAR ALI SHAR S.O. 12(3)---Termination of employment in simpliciter---Scope---Reinstatement in service---Scope---In exercise of powers under S.O. 12(3) of the Industrial and Commercial Employment (Standing Orders)…
2021 PLD 671 SUPREME-COURT
SAEEDA SULTAN VS LIAQAT ALI ORAKZAI S. 38 & O.XXI & O. XLV, R. 15---Contempt of Court Ordinance (IV of 2003), Ss. 2(a), 3 & 5---Supreme Court Rules, 1980, O.XXVII---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts. 204(2) & 204(3)---Decree/order passed by th…
2021 PLD 684 SUPREME-COURT
LUNG FUNG CHINESE RESTAURANT, LAHORE VS PUNJAB FOOD AUTHORITY Ss. 4, 7(3) & 9---International key principles integral to the architecture of food laws stated. Citation Name: 2021 PLD 684 SUPREME-COURTBookmark this Case LUNG FUNG CHINESE RES…
2021 PLD 700 SUPREME-COURT
HAZRAT BILAL VS Mst. SPOGMAI Para. 10(8)---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O.XLI, Rr. 20, 27 & 33---Appeal or revision---Appellate or revisional court to decide the appeal/revision within thirty days, without remanding it on any ground wh…
2021 PLD 708 SUPREME-COURT
Shahzada QAISER ARFAT alias QAISER VS State S. 498---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 302, 109, 148 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, abetment, rioting armed with deadly weapons, unlawful assembly---Pre-arrest bail, grant of---Material available as to the a…
2021 PLD 715 SUPREME-COURT
Mst. AKHTAR SULTANA VS Major Retd. MUZAFFAR KHAN MALIK arts. 123 & 124---Presumptions as to a person being alive or dead---Principles---article 123 & art. 124 of the Qanun-e-Shahadat, 1984 regulated rules of evidence relating to the presump…
2021 PLD 738 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD SARFRAZ ANSARI VS State S. 497---Bail, grant of---Discretion of Supreme Court---Scope---Practice of the Supreme Court was not to intervene in bail matters ordinarily, leaving them to the discretion of the courts inquiring into the…
2021 PLD 743 SUPREME-COURT
SHEHRI - CITIZENS FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN art. 184(3)---Matter regarding encroachment over Gujjar Nallah and Orangi Nallah (rain water drainage streams)---Removal of encroachments in and around the nallahs on the…
2021 PLD 320 SUPREME-COURT
NATIONAL SAVING CENTRAL DIRECTORATE, ISLAMABAD VS MUHAMMAD FAROOQ RAJA Rr. 5 & 8---General Clauses Act (X of 1897), S. 24-A---Locus poenitentiae, principle of---"Bahbood Saving Certificate Scheme" ('the Scheme') introduced by the National S…
2021 PLD 745 SUPREME-COURT
YASIR NAWAZ VS HIGHER EDUCATION COMMISSION arts. 184(3) & 199---Higher Education Commission Ordinance (LIII of 2002), S. 10---Educational institutions---Judicial review---Scope---Policy decisions taken by statutory bodies and authorities ta…
2021 PLD 752 SUPREME-COURT
AIJAZ AHMED TUNIO VS State arts. 202 & 203---Judge/judicial officer of subordinate judiciary---adverse remarks/strictures passed by the High Court on the judicial side---Propriety---High Court, under its judicial authority, should avoid pas…
2021 PLD 756 SUPREME-COURT
NATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY BUREAU VS Agha SIRAJ KHAN DURRANI S. 498---National Accountability Ordinance (XVIII of 1999), S. 9(b)---Corruption and corrupt practices---Pre-arrest bail, grant of---Scope---In National Accountability Bureau (NAB) r…
2021 PLD 761 SUPREME-COURT
Rai MUHAMMAD RIAZ VS EJAZ AHMED art. 189---Judgments of the Supreme Court---Binding on all Trial Courts---Trial Courts must implement judgments of the Supreme Court in letter and spirit as the same were binding on them in terms of art. 189…
2021 PLD 770 SUPREME-COURT
ASAD ALI KHAN VS PROVINCE OF PUNJAB Ss. 3 & 233 [as amended by the Punjab Local Government (Amendment) Act (XI of 2020)]---Punjab Local Government Act (XVIII of 2013), S. 30---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts. 7, 17, 32 & 140A---Local governm…
2021 PLD 784 SUPREME-COURT
NADIA NAZ VS The PRESIDENT OF ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF PAKISTAN Ss. 2(h), 4(4) & 8---Ombudsperson, powers of---Scope---None of the provisions of the Protection against Harassment of Women at Workplace Act, 2010 ('the 2010 Act') empowered the Fed…
2021 PLD 795 SUPREME-COURT
GUL REHMAN VS State Ss. 497(2) & 173---Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Arms Act (XXIII of 2013), Ss. 15 & 17---Unlicensed possession of arms and ammunition ---Bail, grant of---Delay in submitting investigation report (challan) before Trial Court---Inves…
2021 PLD 799 SUPREME-COURT
IFTIKHAR AHMAD VS State S. 497(1)---Post-arrest bail---Offences not falling within prohibitory clause of S.497(1), Cr.P.C.---Principles relating to post-arrest bail in offences not falling within prohibitory clause of S.497(1), Cr.P.C. stat…
2021 PLD 804 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD RASHID VS State O. IV, Rr. 2, 17 & O.VII, R.1---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), Ss. 154 & 197---Advocate-on-Record, duty of---Better copy of FIR, omissions in---In the present case, the better copy of FIR appended with bail pe…
2021 PLD 806 SUPREME-COURT
FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN throughSecretary, Ministry of Industries and Production VS HAMZA SUGAR MILLS LTD. art. 199---Constitutional jurisdiction of the High Court---Scope---Commercial and policy matters---Pricing mechanism of edible commodit…
2021 PLD 327 SUPREME-COURT
CHERAT CEMENT CO. LTD., NOWSHERA VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources O.XXVI, R. 8---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O. XLVII, R.1---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 188---Review petition, hearing of…
2021 PLD 809 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD NAWAZ VS State Ss. 497 & 498---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 185(3)---Bail---Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court and High Courts---Difference between the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court under Art. 185(3) of the Constitut…
2021 PLD 812 SUPREME-COURT
GHULAM QASIM VS Mst. RAZIA BEGUM arts. 23, 24, 25(3), 34 & 38(a)---Inheritance rights of females---Practice of male legal heirs depriving their sisters of their share of inheritance---Observations recorded by the Supreme Court deprecating s…
2021 PLD 822 SUPREME-COURT
AKASH MASIH VS State O. IV, Rr.6, 15, 22 & 25 & Sixth Sched., Form 5---advocate-on-Record---Duties of an advocate-on-Record and importance of his/her role under the Supreme Court Rules, 1980 stated.
2021 PLD 825 SUPREME-COURT
VS arts. 48(1) & 186---advisory jurisdiction of the Supreme Court---Principles relating to the nature and scope of advisory jurisdiction of the Supreme Court under art. 186 of the Constitution stated. Citation Name: 2021 PLD 825 SUPREME-COU…
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