Pakistani case law library
Pak Law GPT gives lawyers, students and litigants access to reported Pakistani judgments in Urdu and English. Every judgment below is published from our case-law database with its original reported text, so you can read the citation and the judgment content directly.
Browse by branch of law
Reported judgments28,856 records
2021 SCMR 27 SUPREME-COURT
SHAHID GUL AND PARTNERS VS DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX, AUDIT-V, RTO, PESHAWAR Ss. 20 & 24---Sale of immoveable property---Deductible expense---Scope---Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 did not expressly require registration of sales of immo…
2021 SCMR 46 SUPREME-COURT
SECRETARY ESTABLISHMENT DIVISION, ISLAMABAD VS TAHAWWAR AHMAD F.R. 17---Civil servant granted pro forma promotion to BS-22 on orders of the Federal Service Tribunal---Allotment of additional plot, entitlement to---Civil servant who was gran…
2021 SCMR 56 SUPREME-COURT
Mian HAROON RIAZ LUCKY VS State Ss. 4, 5(2), 23 & 31---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), S. 462-C & Chapt. XVII-A---Theft of natural gas by commercial consumer---Registration of FIR under S. 462-C, P.P.C.---Plea of accused-petitioners that at time…
2021 SCMR 63 SUPREME-COURT
JAHANZEB VS State S. 497(2)---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 302, 324 & 34---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, common intention---Bail, grant of---Further inquiry---Allegation against the accused persons was that they resorted to ind…
2021 SCMR 67 SUPREME-COURT
QAISAR KHAN VS GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA Reglns. 20(c) & 20(g)---Domicile certificate---Renunciation of domicile by implication---Scope---Respondent got employment as Lecturer on the domicile of "Tribal area" but subsequently, he app…
2021 SCMR 69 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD IMRAN VS State S. 302(b)--- Qatl-i-amd--- Reappraisal of evidence--- Husband murdering his wife and daughters over strained marital relations---Prosecution case was structured upon ocular account furnished by the accused's father-i…
2021 SCMR 73 SUPREME-COURT
ATTA MUHAMMAD VS Mst. MUNIR SULTAN (DECEASED) Ss. 42(1), 42(6) & 42(7)--- Gift--- Gift mutation--- Proof---Section 42(1) of the Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1967 ('the Act') required the person in whose favour the land had been transferred/alie…
2021 SCMR 82 SUPREME-COURT
Sardar ABDUL REHMAN VS ABDUL KAREEM KHETRAN Ss. 144(4) & 148(1)---High Court (Lahore) Rules and Orders, Vol. IV, Chapt XII---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O. VI, Rr. 14 & 15---Election petition---Maintainability---Verification of electi…
2021 SCMR 87 SUPREME-COURT
SHARIF KHAN VS State S. 497(5)---Bail, cancellation of---Scope---Ordinarily superior courts were hesitant and reluctant in interfering with an order extending concession of bail---Once concession of bail was granted by a court of competent…
2021 SCMR 92 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD HAYAT VS State art. 22---High Court (Lahore) Rules and Orders, Vol. III, Part-C---Test identification parade---Scope---Omission of assailants' features in the crime report---Whether such omission was a ground to discard the test id…
2021 SCMR 97 SUPREME-COURT
DIRECTOR GENERAL, NATIONAL SAVINGS CENTRAL DIRECTORATE OF NATIONAL SAVING 32-N SECTOR G-6, ISLAMABAD VS MUHAMMAD SULTAN S. 9--- Civil Servants (Seniority) Rules, 1993---Persons/respondents serving in a Ministry devolved after the 18th Const…
2021 SCMR 104 SUPREME-COURT
AKBAR ALI VS State S. 324---attempt to commit qatl-i-amd---Reappraisal of evidence---accused persons were convicted and sentenced by the Trial Court under S. 324, P.P.C. for the murderous assault upon the injured witnesses and also ordered…
2021 SCMR 107 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD ANWAR VS MUHAMMAD ASLAM Ss. 6(2), 13 & 35---Suit for pre-emption---Talbs, performance of---Mutation of sale qua subject property was attested on 14-2-1990; this was the interregnum period i.e. from 1-8-1986, to 28-3-1990 when no la…
2021 SCMR 109 SUPREME-COURT
Mst. SUGHRAN VS State Criminal justice system---Purpose---Primary purpose behind the criminal justice system was to enable an offender to reform and rehabilitate him/herself to rejoin mainstream life to once again become a useful member the…
2021 SCMR 111 SUPREME-COURT
IMTIAZ VS AZAM KHAN S. 497(5)---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 302, 324, 34 & 337-D---Bail, recalling of---¬Judge of High Court hearing accused's first bail application sending the matter back to Trial Court for addition of relevant sections…
2021 SCMR 116 SUPREME-COURT
Syed MUDDASAR SHAH TERMIZI VS PESHAWAR HIGH COURT, PESHAWAR through Registrar, Peshawar Ss. 8 & 19(4), proviso [as substituted through the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Civil Servants (Amendment) Act (III of 2013)]---Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Judicial Servic…
2021 SCMR 128 SUPREME-COURT
IBRAR ULLAH VS State S. 9(c)---Possession of 3500 grams of cannibas---Reappraisal of evidence---Admittedly, the accused was a resident of city 'P'; he had apparently no business to be present in city 'R', wherefrom he was unanticipatedly ap…
2021 SCMR 130 SUPREME-COURT
KHAIR MUHAMMAD VS State S. 498---Pre-arrest bail---Purpose and scope---Concept of pre-arrest bail was exceptional, it had to be exercised sparingly---Purpose behind pre-arrest bail was to save innocent persons from false allegations, trumpe…
2021 SCMR 134 SUPREME-COURT
BASHIR AHMED VS MUHAMMAD ZAMAN S. 13(1), Explanation---Suit for pre-emption---Talb-i-Muwathibat, making of---Two hour delay in making the demand of Talb-i-Muwathibat---Such delay was fatal to a pre-emption suit.
2021 SCMR 136 SUPREME-COURT
JAHANGIR KHAN VS KHALID LATIF Ss. 6(2)(e) & 23---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), S. 365-A---Kidnapping or abduction for ransom---Transfer of case from court of ordinary jurisdiction to Anti-Terrorism Court on the orders of the High Court---Legali…
2021 SCMR 138 SUPREME-COURT
SAJID VS SAMIN UR REHMAN (DECEASED) S. 497---Bail---Scope---Co-accused fugitive from law---Criminal liability could not be shifted from the co-accused to the accused merely on the ground that the co-accused was a fugitive from law. Citation…
2021 SCMR 142 SUPREME-COURT
ZEESHAN alias SHANI VS MUHAMMAD AYUB art. 185(3)---appeal against acquittal---Scope---Reversal of acquittal required strong grounds and could not be interfered with merely on the possibility of a contra view. Citation Name: 2021 SCMR 142 SU…
2021 SCMR 144 SUPREME-COURT
NATIONAL BANK OF PAKISTAN VS ZAHOOR AHMED MENGAL Employee admittedly absent from duty---Disciplinary proceedings---Regular inquiry---Scope---Where the fact of absence from duty was admitted, there was no need for holding of a regular enquir…
2021 SCMR 149 SUPREME-COURT
GHULAM MURTAZA VS State Ss. 302(b) & 459---Qatl-i-amd, hurt caused, whilst committing lurking house-trespass or house-breaking---Reappraisal of evidence---Sentence, quantum of---Mitigating circumstances---Motive for the occurrence was not e…
2021 SCMR 153 SUPREME-COURT
FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary Establishment Division, Islamabad VS SHAFQAT-UR-REHMAN RANJHA Rr. 2(2), 5(iv) & 6a(2)---Disciplinary proceedings---Inquiry officer recommending exoneration of civil servant---Prime Minister ('the aut…
2021 SCMR 159 SUPREME-COURT
ISHTIAQ HUSSAIN VS State S. 302(b)---Qatl-i-amd---Reappraisal of evidence---Discrepancy in the ocular account unanimously furnished by all the witnesses including the injured himself was most intriguing; with one voice they blamed an acquit…
2021 SCMR 162 SUPREME-COURT
FAWAD KHAN VS State S. 15---anti-Terrorism act (XXVII of 1997), S. 7---Possession of unlicensed weapon, kidnapping for ransom---Reappraisal of evidence---During the raid for recovery of abductee, the accused was apprehended on the spot whil…
2021 SCMR 166 SUPREME-COURT
SECRETARY ESTABLISHMENT DIVISION, GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN, ISLAMABAD VS IMTIAZ AHMAD MALIK, DIRECTOR ANTI-CORRUPTION, ESTABLISHMENT SAHIWAL Rr. 7 & 11(2)(c)---Encadred police officer from a Province, appointment of---Inter se seniority among…
2021 SCMR 172 SUPREME-COURT
CHAIRMAN PAKISTAN ORDNANACE FACTORIES BOARD, WAH CANTT. VS Dr. NAVEEDA RAUF F.R. 84, appendix No. 9 ['the Study Leave Rules']---Study Leave---Pay and allowances, entitlement to---Medical officer (respondent) working in Pakistan Ordnance Fac…
2021 SCMR 176 SUPREME-COURT
NOOR SULTAN VS State Ss. 302, 324, 337-a(i), 337-a(ii), 337-F(i), 337-F(v), 147 & 149---Qatl-i-amd, house trespass, causing injuries to inmates of house---Bail, refusal of---Matter was reported to the police within 2.15 hours whereas inter…
2021 SCMR 179 SUPREME-COURT
FARHAN ASLAM VS Mst. NUZBA SHAHEEN arts. 24(1), 25(3), 29(1), 35 & 37---Islamic law---Inheritance rights of women, widows, children and orphans---Protection provided under the Constitution. Citation Name: 2021 SCMR 179 SUPREME-COURTBookmark…
2021 SCMR 185 SUPREME-COURT
GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA VS JAWAD ALI Ss. 2(b) & 3---Project employees---Regularization in service---Scope---Contractual employees of a private company (Sarhad Rural Support Programme) working on temporary project posts in an outsou…
2021 SCMR 194 SUPREME-COURT
Dr. ZOHARA JABEEN VS MUHAMMAD ASLAM PERVAIZ S. 7---Punjab Civil Servants (Appointment and Conditions of Service) Rules, 1974, R. 8---District Population Welfare Officers---'Promotees' and 'direct appointees'---Seniority---Scope---Direct app…
2021 SCMR 198 SUPREME-COURT
SHABBIR HUSSAIN VS State S. 9(c)---Possession of narcotic---Reappraisal of evidence---Absence of any apparent reason to falsely implicate the accused for possession of 15.6 kg of narcotic, negated the hypothesis of fake imposition---Methodo…
2021 SCMR 201 SUPREME-COURT
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES HOUSING FOUNDATION (FGEHF), ISLAMABAD VS Malik GHULAM MUSTAFA Doctrines and tools of interpretation applied by the superior courts to adjudge the legitimacy, vires, ultra vires, repeal, overriding, or supremacy…
2021 SCMR 289 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD AFZAL VS State S. 302(b)---Qatl-i-amd---Reappraisal of evidence---Occurrence had taken place at 3.30 p.m. whereas the matter was reported to the police at 4.45 p.m. on the same day whereas the inter se distance between the place of…
2021 SCMR 292 SUPREME-COURT
MANZOOR AHMED AKHTAR VS State Ss. 466, 468 & 471---Prevention of Corruption act (II of 1947), S. 5(2)---Producing a fake acquittal decision of High Court to re-join government service---Reappraisal of evidence---Prosecution and conviction o…
2021 SCMR 294 SUPREME-COURT
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 petition…
2021 SCMR 298 SUPREME-COURT
MUNIR AKHTAR alias MUNIR AHMAD VS State S. 302(b)---Qatl-i-amd---Reappraisal of evidence---Occurrence had taken place in broad daylight in which two persons were done to death in a brutal manner---Occurrence had taken place at 12.50 p.m. wh…
2021 SCMR 301 SUPREME-COURT
LAL MARJAN VS ISLAM GUL S. 497(2)---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 302 & 324---Qatl-i-amd, attempt to commit qatl-i-amd---Bail, grant of---Further inquiry---Accused persons were arrayed as culprits in the case on basis of supplementary state…
2021 SCMR 302 SUPREME-COURT
Mst. ASIA QASEEM VS ALAMZEB S. 497(5)---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 302, 148 & 149---Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Arms Act (XXIII of 2013), S. 15---Qatl-i-amd, rioting armed with deadly weapons, unlawful assembly, possessing unlicensed weapon---Bai…
2021 SCMR 305 SUPREME-COURT
PROVINCE OF PUNJAB through Secretary Excise and Taxation Department, Lahore VS MURREE BREWERY COMPANY LIMITED (MBCL) Ss. 79, 153, O. I, R. 10 & O. XXVII-a---Constitution of Pakistan, art. 174---Suits by or against the Government---Section 7…
2021 SCMR 319 SUPREME-COURT
NAKHUDA MUSTAFA VS State S. 9, proviso---Fishing in banned area with prohibited net---Reappraisal of evidence---Accused persons were convicted and sentenced by Trial Court under S. 9 of Balochistan Sea Fisheries Ordinance, 1971 and it was a…
2021 SCMR 321 SUPREME-COURT
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, PESHAWAR VS INAYAT-UR-REHMAN S. 3 & Sched. Entry No. 26---Copyright Ordinance (XXXIV of 1962), Ss. 66, 66-A & 67---Infringement of copyrights of a book publisher--- Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), jurisdiction o…
2021 SCMR 324 SUPREME-COURT
ATIF-UR-REHMAN VS State S. 497(2)---Control of Narcotic Substances Act (XXV of 1997), Ss. 9(c) & 15---Possession and trafficking of narcotics---Bail, grant of---Further inquiry---Nothing was recovered from the vehicle duly driven by the acc…
2021 SCMR 325 SUPREME-COURT
ABDUL KHALIQ VS State S. 302(b)---Qatl-i-amd---Reappraisal of evidence---Related witness, testimony of---Scope---Mere relationship of a witness with the deceased did not undermine the value of his testimony, if otherwise it was found with a…
2021 SCMR 328 SUPREME-COURT
PROVINCE OF PUNJAB through Conservator of Forest, Faisalabad VS JAVED IQBAL S. 21, proviso---Retired employee---Departmental proceedings, finalization of---Time frame---Scope---In terms of proviso to S. 21 of the Punjab Employees Efficiency…
2021 SCMR 343 SUPREME-COURT
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN VS NADEEM H. SHAIKH art. 185---Companies Ordinance (XLVII of 1984), S. 282-K [since repealed]---appeal pending before the Supreme Court---appellant (Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakist…
2021 SCMR 345 SUPREME-COURT
DIRECTOR GENERAL FEDERAL DIRECTORATE VS TANVEER MUHAMMAD S. 5(1)---Service Tribunal, powers of---Structured exercise of jurisdiction---Scope---Where the Tribunal exercised jurisdiction under S. 5 of the Service Tribunals Act, 1973, legally…
2021 SCMR 349 SUPREME-COURT
ABBAS ALI VS State S. 302(b)---Qatl-i-amd---Reappraisal of evidence---Prosecution case was primarily structured upon ocular account furnished by three witnesses, one of whom was injured during the occurrence --- All three witnesses furnishe…
Looking for a specific point of law? Search the case-law database in Urdu or English.