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2021 SCMR 834 SUPREME-COURT
D. G. KHAN CEMENT COMPANY LTD. VS GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB through Chief Secretary,Lahore S. 3---Restrictions on establishment of industrial undertakings---Zoning and classification of land---Declaring an area as 'positive' or 'negative' area--…
2021 SCMR 834 SUPREME-COURT
D. G. KHAN CEMENT COMPANY LTD. VS GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB through Chief Secretary,Lahore S. 3---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 9---Restrictions on establishment of industrial undertakings---Zoning of area as 'negative' area-- Climate change---…
2021 SCMR 855 SUPREME-COURT
WALI JAN VS GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA arts. 187(1) & 212(3)---Service appeal before the Supreme Court---Scope---Party (civil servant) had no right to raise an absolutely new plea before the Supreme Court and seek a decision on it, no…
2021 SCMR 857 SUPREME-COURT
HASSAN NAWAZ VS ATTA MUHAMMAD (DECEASED) O. XVIII, Rr. 8, 15, 16(3), 17 & O. XXVI, Rr. 1, 7---Memorandum where evidence not taken down in writing by a Judge---Scope---Evidence recorded through Local Commission appointed by consent of both p…
2021 SCMR 857 SUPREME-COURT
HASSAN NAWAZ VS ATTA MUHAMMAD (DECEASED) O. XVIII, Rr. 8, 13 & 14---Memorandum when evidence not taken by Judge---Scope---Situations explained where it was not necessary to take the evidence of a witness verbatim in writing but the Judge wa…
2021 SCMR 863 SUPREME-COURT
HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF PAKISTAN VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Ministryof Education art. 184(3)---Matter regarding reconstruction and restoration of Hindu temples---Issues including payment to Hindu Council for restoration of Samadhi…
2021 SCMR 867 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 SCMR 867 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 Ss. 16(3a)…
2021 SCMR 871 SUPREME-COURT
TARIQ AHMED VS NATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY BUREAU S. 9---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Corruption and corrupt practices---Pre-arrest/post-arrest bails---Petitioners, who were arrayed as accused persons in different National Accountabilit…
2021 SCMR 873 SUPREME-COURT
State VS AHMED OMAR SHEIKH Evidence---Evidence of one case could not be read into another case, and each case was to be decided in the light of evidence, so produced in that case alone.
2021 SCMR 873 SUPREME-COURT
State VS AHMED OMAR SHEIKH art. 189---Principles/guidelines relating to criminal law given by the Supreme Court in its judgments---Such principles/guidelines had binding effect upon all the courts below in view of art. 189 of the Constituti…
2021 SCMR 873 SUPREME-COURT
State VS AHMED OMAR SHEIKH 'Conspiracy'---Definition and scope.
2021 SCMR 873 SUPREME-COURT
State VS AHMED OMAR SHEIKH S. 164---Delayed judicial confession---Evidentiary value---Longer an accused was in (illegal) custody of police before making his judicial confession lesser the evidentiary value of such confession.
2021 SCMR 873 SUPREME-COURT
State VS AHMED OMAR SHEIKH S. 164---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Arts. 37, 38, 39 & 40---Confession before the Judicial Magistrate---Judicial Magistrate, powers of---Scope---Legal jurisdiction of the Judicial Magistrate recording the conf…
2021 SCMR 873 SUPREME-COURT
State VS AHMED OMAR SHEIKH S. 164---Judicial confession---Scope---Any confession, even recorded under S. 164, Cr.P.C. would become invalid if the accused produced before the Magistrate remained in handcuff while making such confession.
2021 SCMR 873 SUPREME-COURT
State VS AHMED OMAR SHEIKH Benefit of doubt---Scope---Benefit of doubt automatically went in favour of an accused---Even if a single circumstance created reasonable doubt in a prudent mind regarding guilt of an accused then the accused shal…
2021 SCMR 873 SUPREME-COURT
State VS AHMED OMAR SHEIKH Ss. 363 & 365-a---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), arts. 117 & 122---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 342---abduction for ransom---Burden of proof---Scope---Once the prosecution had proved that the deceased w…
2021 SCMR 873 SUPREME-COURT
State VS AHMED OMAR SHEIKH Principles---Parameters to deal with an appeal against conviction and an appeal against acquittal were totally different because acquittal carried double presumption of innocence and same could be reversed only wh…
2021 SCMR 873 SUPREME-COURT
State VS AHMED OMAR SHEIKH S. 428---appellate Court may take further evidence or direct it to be taken---Scope---appellate courts were to be cautious in allowing the production of additional evidence at an appellate stage, especially when s…
2021 SCMR 873 SUPREME-COURT
State VS AHMED OMAR SHEIKH Precedent---Rules/principles laid down in previous cases---Relevance---Each criminal case was to be decided having regard to its own peculiar facts and circumstances---Test to be essentially applied in one case ma…
2021 SCMR 873 SUPREME-COURT
State VS AHMED OMAR SHEIKH art. 185---appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court---Scope---Person aggrieved---Scope---Paramount consideration for the exercise of jurisdiction, in terms of art. 185(3) of the Constitution, was to foster the…
2021 SCMR 873 SUPREME-COURT
State VS AHMED OMAR SHEIKH Ss. 120-a & 120-B---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), art. 23---Criminal conspiracy---Principles relating to essential ingredients, scope and proof of criminal conspiracy stated.
2021 SCMR 873 SUPREME-COURT
State VS AHMED OMAR SHEIKH Newspaper/press reports---Admissibility as evidence---When the authors of press reports were not produced to own their reporting, admitting the said reports, and that too, as proof of the contents thereof, would b…
2021 SCMR 873 SUPREME-COURT
State VS AHMED OMAR SHEIKH S. 164---Confession before the Judicial Magistrate---Scope---No specific statutory requirement existed for S. 164, Cr.P.C. mandating the Magistrate to inform the accused that he would not be sent back to police cu…
2021 SCMR 873 SUPREME-COURT
State VS AHMED OMAR SHEIKH Ss. 302(b), 120-a, 362 & 365-a---anti-Terrorism act (XXVII of 1997), Ss. 6(1)(b), 6(2)(e) & 7---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 164---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), art. 91---Kidnapping and murder of a for…
2021 SCMR 873 SUPREME-COURT
State VS AHMED OMAR SHEIKH Ss. 302(b), 120-a, 362 & 365-a---anti-Terrorism act (XXVII of 1997), Ss. 6(a) & 7---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 164---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), art. 37---Kidnapping and murder of a foreign journal…
2021 SCMR 873 SUPREME-COURT
State VS AHMED OMAR SHEIKH Newspapers reports/items--- Admissibility as evidence--- Such evidence must be viewed with strict caution.
2021 SCMR 873 SUPREME-COURT
State VS AHMED OMAR SHEIKH S. 428---appellate Court may take further evidence or direct it to be taken---Scope---Impartiality of court---Scope--- Courts had to remain impartial and they were not meant to fill up the lacunas/gaps and other i…
2021 SCMR 873 SUPREME-COURT
State VS AHMED OMAR SHEIKH Recovery of incriminating articles---Scope---When one piece of evidence recovered was found to be tainted, then relying on the other incriminating material recovered therewith would not be just and legally correct…
2021 SCMR 873 SUPREME-COURT
State VS AHMED OMAR SHEIKH Ss. 302(b), 120-a, 362 & 365-a---anti-Terrorism act (XXVII of 1997), Ss. 6(a) & 7---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 164---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), arts. 23 & 37---Kidnapping and murder of a foreign j…
2021 SCMR 873 SUPREME-COURT
State VS AHMED OMAR SHEIKH Ss. 120-a & 120-B---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), art. 23---Criminal conspiracy---Essential elements and proof.
2021 SCMR 873 SUPREME-COURT
State VS AHMED OMAR SHEIKH S. 302(b)---Qatl-i-amd---Last seen evidence---Scope---"Last seen" evidence was merely a circumstantial evidence, and that too a weak type of evidence, which alone could not sustain the weight of a capital punishme…
2021 SCMR 873 SUPREME-COURT
State VS AHMED OMAR SHEIKH art. 164---Video tape---Proof and admissibility as evidence---Not disclosing the source of obtaining the video or forensically confirming it not to be tampered would render its admissibility at naught.
2021 SCMR 873 SUPREME-COURT
State VS AHMED OMAR SHEIKH S. 120-a---Criminal conspiracy---Scope and pre-requisites---To constitute a conspiracy meeting of two or more persons for doing an illegal act through illegal means was the primary condition---To ascertain conspir…
2021 SCMR 959 SUPREME-COURT
SECRETARY ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION DEPARTMENT, GOVERNMENT OF KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA, PESHAWAR VS NOOR-UL-AMIN Failure to report to duty on expiry of ex-Pakistan leave---Removal from service---Service Tribunal by way of impugned judgme…
2021 SCMR 962 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD SHARIF VS INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE, PUNJAB, LAHORE Period spent by a civil servant away from duty due to dismissal from service or absence from duty, etc.---"Leave without pay" or "leave of the kind due" granted to a civil serva…
2021 SCMR 962 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD SHARIF VS INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE, PUNJAB, LAHORE Back benefits/back pay---Meaning.
2021 SCMR 962 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD SHARIF VS INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE, PUNJAB, LAHORE S. 16, second proviso---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts. 4, 10A, 14 & 25---Fundamental Rules, R. 54--- Civil Service Rules (Punjab), R. 7.3---Civil servant---Reinstatement in ser…
2021 SCMR 962 SUPREME-COURT
MUHAMMAD SHARIF VS INSPECTOR GENERAL OF POLICE, PUNJAB, LAHORE Reinstate in service---Meaning and scope.
2021 SCMR 977 SUPREME-COURT
KHUSHAL KHAN KHATTAK UNIVERSITY VS JABRAN ALI KHAN S. 23---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Syndicate of a University---Interference in internal working of a Syndicate by the High Court in its Constitutional jurisdiction---Scope---Where…
2021 SCMR 977 SUPREME-COURT
KHUSHAL KHAN KHATTAK UNIVERSITY VS JABRAN ALI KHAN allegation of mala fides made against appointing authority---Mala fides where alleged must be proved.
2021 SCMR 977 SUPREME-COURT
KHUSHAL KHAN KHATTAK UNIVERSITY VS JABRAN ALI KHAN Contractual employees--- Regularization in service---No vested right---Contractual employees had no vested right to seek regularization unless there was legal and statutory basis for the sa…
2021 SCMR 977 SUPREME-COURT
KHUSHAL KHAN KHATTAK UNIVERSITY VS JABRAN ALI KHAN art. 199---Civil service---appointment---Constitutional powers of the High Court---Scope---In its Constitutional jurisdiction the High Court could not arrogate to itself the executive funct…
2021 SCMR 977 SUPREME-COURT
KHUSHAL KHAN KHATTAK UNIVERSITY VS JABRAN ALI KHAN art. 199--- Civil service--- Contractual employees seeking regularization in service---Contract of employment expiring during pendency of Constitutional petitions before the High Court---Ef…
2021 SCMR 988 SUPREME-COURT
SHAMONA BADSHAH QAISARANI VS ELECTION TRIBUNAL, MULTAN 'actus curiae neminem gravabit'---Scope---No man should suffer because of the fault of the court---Said maxim was founded upon justice and good sense which served a safe and certain gui…
2021 SCMR 988 SUPREME-COURT
SHAMONA BADSHAH QAISARANI VS ELECTION TRIBUNAL, MULTAN S. 12(2)(a)---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 62(1)(f)---Nomination papers, rejection/acceptance of---Non-disclosure or misdeclaration of assets in nomination papers---Every non-disclosu…
2021 SCMR 998 SUPREME-COURT
PAKISTAN TELECOMMUNICATION COMPANY LTD. VS MUHAMMAD SAMIULLAH Ss. 35 & 36---Pakistan Telecommunication Corporation Act (XVIII of 1991), S. 9 [since repealed]---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Constitutional jurisdiction of the High Cou…
2021 SCMR 998 SUPREME-COURT
PAKISTAN TELECOMMUNICATION COMPANY LTD. VS MUHAMMAD SAMIULLAH ad hoc, temporary employee or contract employee---No vested right of regularization---ad hoc, temporary or contractual appointment did not create any vested right of regularizati…
2021 SCMR 998 SUPREME-COURT
PAKISTAN TELECOMMUNICATION COMPANY LTD. VS MUHAMMAD SAMIULLAH S. 34---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199(5)---'Person' within the meaning of Art. 199(5) of the Constitution---Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) was a person wi…
2021 SCMR 1008 SUPREME-COURT
DIVISIONAL SUPERINTENDENT PAKISTAN RAILWAYS, RAWALPINDI VS Syed USMAN ALI Temporary Labour Appointments/daily wagers in Pakistan Railways---Regularization in service---Whether date of regularization would operate from the date of initial ap…
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