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2022 YLR 1891 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
KHURRUM SHAHZAD VS SENIOR SUPERINTENDENT POLICE, DISTRICT MIRPUR AZAD KASHMIR art. 44---Writ petition---Quashing of FIR---Scope---High Court is vested with powers to quash FIR if on the face of it no offence appears to have been committed o…
2022 YLR 1891 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
KHURRUM SHAHZAD VS SENIOR SUPERINTENDENT POLICE, DISTRICT MIRPUR AZAD KASHMIR art. 44---Writ petition---Quashing of FIR---Scope---Petitioner sought quashing of FIR lodged against him---allegations levelled in the FIR related to facts and th…
2022 YLR 1891 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
KHURRUM SHAHZAD VS SENIOR SUPERINTENDENT POLICE, DISTRICT MIRPUR AZAD KASHMIR Ss. 154 & 156---Information in cognizable cases---Investigation into cognizable cases---Scope---Incharge of concerned police station is duty bound to register FIR…
2022 YLR 2011 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
TALHA NAFEES VS BUSHRA BOSTAN S. 5, Sched.---Dissolution of Muslim Marriages Act (VIII of 1939), Ss. 2(ii), (iv), (viii)a & (viii)f---Suits for Dissolution of marriage and recovery of dowry articles by respondent/wife and suit for restituti…
2022 YLR 2042 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
MUHAMMAD ILYAS VS State S. 458---Offences against Property (Enforcement of Hudood) act (XII of 1985), S. 20---Lurking house-trespass or house-breaking by night after preparation for hurt, assault or wrongful restraint---Haraabah liable to t…
2022 YLR 2042 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
MUHAMMAD ILYAS VS State Benefit of doubt---Scope---Benefit of a slightest doubt has to be resolved in favour of an accused not ex-gratia but as a matter of right.
2022 YLR 2059 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
KHALIL KHAN VS FAZALDAD KHAN arts. 18, 113, 117 & 118---Mutation, cancellation of---Family-tree admitted---Burden to prove mutation---Mutation attested by revenue authorities was alleged to have not been in accordance with the principle of…
2022 YLR 2059 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
KHALIL KHAN VS FAZALDAD KHAN O. I, R. 1---Revenue authorities---When no rights of Revenue authority was disturbed and nothing was claimed which could prejudice the rights of the Revenue department, declaration could be awarded to settle the…
2022 YLR 2059 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
KHALIL KHAN VS FAZALDAD KHAN Inheritance---Residuary, absence of---Radd/return to the sharers---Principle---If there was a residue left after satisfying claims of sharers but there was no residuary, the residue revert to the sharers in prop…
2022 YLR 2059 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
KHALIL KHAN VS FAZALDAD KHAN Inheritance---No residuary---Radd/ return to the sole daughter---Principle---Where there was no sharer by blood/ residuary/distant kindred person but only a sole surviving daughter, the daughter was entitled to…
2022 YLR 2373 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
MUHAMMAD BASHIR VS Muhammad Saeed Khan S. 497---azad Jammu and Kashmir Offences against Property (Enforcement of Hudood) act (XII of 1985), S. 20---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 354 & 458---Haraabah---assault or criminal force to woman with…
2022 YLR 2446 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
MUHAMMAD AYAZ VS AZHAR MEHMOOD O.XLI, R. 19---appeal dismissed for default--- Re-admission--- Sufficient cause--- Scope--- applicant / appellant sought restoration of appeal dismissed for non-prosecution--- Contention of applicant was that…
2022 YLR 2487 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
SABIR HUSSAIN VS State Ss. 10, 11 & 19---Offence of zina, kidnapping or abducting a woman for illicit relations, etc.---Appeal against acquittal---Scope---Appellant assailed the acquittal of respondents in a case lodged under Ss. 10, 11 & 1…
2022 YLR 2487 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
SABIR HUSSAIN VS State Burden of proof---Scope---Onus to prove allegations is always upon the shoulders of prosecution in a manner to prove the case against accused without any shadow of doubt---Any doubt or loophole in the case is to be re…
2022 YLR 2487 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
SABIR HUSSAIN VS State S. 417---appeal against acquittal---Scope---Double presumption acquired by accused in the shape of acquittal qua his innocence cannot be shattered normally.
2022 YLR 2487 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
SABIR HUSSAIN VS State S. 417---appeal against acquittal---Scope---Until an acquittal order is found perverse, arbitrary and fanciful same cannot be interfered with.
2022 PLD 33 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
MUHAMMAD WARIS VS DISTRICT MAGISTRATE DISTRICT MUZAFFARABAD, AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR art. 44---Writ petition---Cancellation of State Subject Certificates---Protection of ill-gotten gains---Scope---Petitioners assailed cancellation of their S…
2022 PLD 40 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
GUL MUHAMMAD VS JAN MOMAMMAD O. XII, R. 1---No abatement by party's death, if right to sue survives---Scope---Criteria to determine when abatement of suit occurs in totality and when in partiality, detailed.
2022 PLD 40 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
GUL MUHAMMAD VS JAN MOMAMMAD O.I, R.3---Suit against dead person---Scope---Appeal, revision or lis against a dead person is not competent.
2022 PLD 40 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
GUL MUHAMMAD VS JAN MOMAMMAD O.I, Rr. 1 & 3---Suit by or against dead person---Scope---No suit can be filed on behalf of a dead person or against a dead person.
2022 PLD 40 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
GUL MUHAMMAD VS JAN MOMAMMAD O. XII, R. 1---No abatement by party's death, if right to sue survives---Scope---Factum of death of plaintiff or defendant is not sufficient to non-suit the party if the right to sue survives.
2022 PLD 40 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
GUL MUHAMMAD VS JAN MOMAMMAD O. XII, R. 1---No abatement by party's death, if right to sue survives---Actio Personalis Moritur Cum Persona---Scope---All right of action existing in favour or against a party survive but personal activities c…
2022 PLD 40 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
GUL MUHAMMAD VS JAN MOMAMMAD S. 42---Suit for declaration---Partition of joint property---Scope---All sharers have equal rights in joint property until and unless the same is partitioned by metes and bounds---Possession of one co-sharer is…
2022 PLD 45 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
SIDRA ALAM VS State art. 44---Writ petition---Quashing of FIR---Scope---Where a case requires detailed probe, High Court does not interfere into investigation proceedings and hamper the investigation agency to investigate into the matter.
2022 PLD 45 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
SIDRA ALAM VS State art. 44---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), Ss. 561-a, 154, 169, 249-a, 265-K & 551---Police Rules, 1934, R. 24.7---Writ petition---Quashing of FIR---Information in cognizable cases---Release of accused when evidence…
2022 PLD 45 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
SIDRA ALAM VS State S. 154---Information in cognizable cases---Scope---Incharge of the concerned police station is duty bound to register FIR on receiving information of any cognizable offence and conduct investigation in accordance with la…
2022 PLD 45 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
SIDRA ALAM VS State art. 44---Writ petition---Quashing of FIR---Scope---High Court is vested with powers to quash FIR if on the face of it no offence appears to have been committed or it appears that the FIR has been lodged with mala fide i…
2022 PLD 45 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
SIDRA ALAM VS State S. 156---Investigation into cognizable cases---Scope---Investigation regarding the commission of offence is the duty as well as the prerogative of the police whenever a report is made to it and it is for Investigating Of…
2022 PLD 45 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
SIDRA ALAM VS State S. 156---Investigation into cognizable cases---Scope---After registration of the case/FIR, any Officer In-charge of the police station will investigate the matter according to S. 156 of the Cr.P.C.
2022 PLD 45 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
SIDRA ALAM VS State art. 44---Writ petition---Quashing of FIR by High Court---Instances detailed.
2022 PLD 52 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
MUHAMMAD WARIS VS DISTRICT MAGISTRATE, DISTRICT MUZAFFARABAD, AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR art. 44---Writ petition---Cancellation of State Subject Certificates---Protection of ill-gotten gains---Scope---Petitioners assailed cancellation of their…
2022 PLD 57 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
JAVED AHMED KHAN VS Mst. NOREEN (WIDOW) Ss. 100, 104 & O. XLIII, R. 1---"Ex debito justitiae", doctrine of---Suit for declaration and perpetual injunction was filed by the respondents claiming that they were owners of the land and that appe…
2022 PLD 57 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
JAVED AHMED KHAN VS Mst. NOREEN (WIDOW) Maxim "ex debito justitiae"---Meaning and scope---Doctrine of Ex debito justitiae meant "as a matter of right or what a person is entitled to as of right"---Said doctrine was entrenched/engrained in t…
2022 PLD 57 HIGH-COURT-AZAD-KASHMIR
JAVED AHMED KHAN VS Mst. NOREEN (WIDOW) Ss. 100, 114 & 115---appeal, review and revision were substantive/ statutory remedies provided by law.
2022 PLD 1 ISLAMABAD
SHAH RUKH JAMAL VS NATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY BUREAU, ISLAMABAD S. 23---Prohibition regarding property---Scope---Such prohibition extends to the property directly or indirectly owned by an accused.
2022 PLD 1 ISLAMABAD
SHAH RUKH JAMAL VS NATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY BUREAU, ISLAMABAD Ss.12, 13 & 23---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), Ss. 53, 88, 145, 146 & 516-A---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Constitutional petition---Case property---Scope---Petitio…
2022 PLD 1 ISLAMABAD
SHAH RUKH JAMAL VS NATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY BUREAU, ISLAMABAD Ss. 12, 13 & 23---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), Ss. 53, 88, 145, 146 & 516-A---Criminal proceedings---Dealing with property---Scope---Even if no order has been passed under…
2022 PLD 1 ISLAMABAD
SHAH RUKH JAMAL VS NATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY BUREAU, ISLAMABAD S. 12---Freezing of property---Powers, exercise of---Term 'reasonable grounds for believing'---Applicability---Such power is discretionary in nature and it can either be exercised…
2022 PLD 1 ISLAMABAD
SHAH RUKH JAMAL VS NATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY BUREAU, ISLAMABAD Special law---Scope---When special statute confers special powers and jurisdiction and provides a special form of procedure then those prevail over the procedure or provisions of…
2022 PLD 131 ISLAMABAD
KHURRAM MANZOOR CH. VS SURIYA BEGUM Rr. 191, 192 & 200---High Court (Lahore) Rules and Orders, Vol. V, Chap. 6, Part J, R. 8---Registered clerks---Clerks, even when registered in accordance with the procedure prescribed in the relevant Rule…
2022 PLD 138 ISLAMABAD
Mrs. ZEENAT SALIM VS PAKISTAN NAVAL FARMS Preamble---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 245(1)---Pakistan Navy---Duties and functions---Pakistan Navy nor its officers are authorized or mandated to undertake, directly or indirectly any activity…
2022 PLD 138 ISLAMABAD
Mrs. ZEENAT SALIM VS PAKISTAN NAVAL FARMS Preamble---Islamabad (Preservation of Landscape) Ordinance (III of 1966), S. 4---Constitution of Pakistan, Arts. 173 & 245(1)--Constitutional petition---Unauthorized functions, performing of---Prese…
2022 PLD 138 ISLAMABAD
Mrs. ZEENAT SALIM VS PAKISTAN NAVAL FARMS art.245 (1)---armed Forces, transgressing from their role---Effect---armed Forces of Pakistan have a special status under the Constitution and transgressing therefrom is against public interest, suc…
2022 PLD 138 ISLAMABAD
Mrs. ZEENAT SALIM VS PAKISTAN NAVAL FARMS S. 4---Preservation of landscape---Rawal lake---Status---Environment, polluting of---Dispute was with regard to establishing a Sailing Club in Rawal lake by Pakistan Navy---Effect---Reservoir of Raw…
2022 PLD 138 ISLAMABAD
Mrs. ZEENAT SALIM VS PAKISTAN NAVAL FARMS art. 245(1)---armed Forces---Functions---Constitution expressly describes two functions of armed Forces---Primary function or Constitutional duty of armed Forces is to defend Pakistan against extern…
2022 PLD 138 ISLAMABAD
Mrs. ZEENAT SALIM VS PAKISTAN NAVAL FARMS art. 9---Right to life---Clean water and environment---Scope---Environmental degradation, impact on GDP---availability of clean water and keeping environment free from pollution has a direct nexus w…
2022 PLD 206 ISLAMABAD
ASAD JAVED VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of Interior Ss. 9(1) & 9(2)---Good Conduct Prisoners' Probational Release Act (X of 1926), S. 4---Release on parole---Convict transferred from abroad---Petitioner was convicte…
2022 PLD 206 ISLAMABAD
ASAD JAVED VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of Interior S.4---"Release on parole"---Connotation---Convict who is released on parole does not have his sentence suspended or remitted but his custody is shifted from jail a…
2022 PLD 206 ISLAMABAD
ASAD JAVED VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Secretary, Ministry of Interior S. 9(2)---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 401---Remissions---Entitlement---Principle---Accused is entitled to benefit of remissions which are with respect…
2022 PLD 228 ISLAMABAD
Mst. MUMTAZ BIBI VS QASIM Preamble---Marriage---Object, purpose and scope---Contract of marriage is a contract whereby parties agree to engage in sexual relations, recognized by the State and society as legitimate, for the purpose of procre…
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