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2022 CLC 1700 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
AKRAM VS VAKEEL MUHAMMAD Will---Suit for cancellation of document, declaration and injunction---Islamic law---Deed of will---Proof---Marz ul Maut---Absence of legal heirs---Respondents / plaintiffs assailed Will Deed allegedly executed by t…
2022 MLD 570 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ANWAR ALI KHASKHELI VS State S. 497---Bail---Tentative assessment---Scope---Bail application is required to be decided on tentative assessment of matter and deeper appreciation of evidence is precluded.
2022 MLD 570 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ANWAR ALI KHASKHELI VS State S. 497---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 302, 392, 201 & 34---Qatl-i-amd, robbery, causing disappearance of evidence of offence, common intention---Bail, refusal of---Delayed FIR---Scope---Allegation against accus…
2022 MLD 577 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ABDUL ZAHEER VS State Benefit of doubt---Principle---accused would be entitled to the benefit of the doubt not by way of concession but as of right.
2022 MLD 577 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ABDUL ZAHEER VS State Ss.420, 468, 471 & 109---Prevention of Corruption act (II of 1947), S. 5(2)---Cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property, forgery for the purpose of cheating, using as genuine a forged document, common inte…
2022 MLD 592 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SHAHAN VS MUHAMMAD SIDDIQUE S. 164---Respondents were granted an area of 5-15 acres in the year 1958-59---Grant in question was fully paid up, sanction was issued by Colonization Officer and later on, a new survey was formed vide impugned o…
2022 MLD 600 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ZULFIQAR ALI VS State Ss.25(b) & 32---Plea bargain---Voluntariness---Proof---Accused after his arrest by National Accountability Bureau (NAB) entered into plea bargain and was released, whereas remaining co-accused persons were acquitted of…
2022 MLD 600 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ZULFIQAR ALI VS State Ss. 9(a) & 32---Appeal against acquittal---Double presumption of innocence---Accused persons were acquitted by Trial Court as prosecution failed to prove any case against them---Validity---No illegalities in judgment p…
2022 MLD 626 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Dr. MUHAMMAD KHAN SHAR VS PRESIDENT, PAKISTAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION CENTER art.199---Constitutional petition---Maintainability---Scope---Petitioner challenged the legality of notification issued by Pakistan Medical association whereby the res…
2022 MLD 657 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
FARAZ MEMON VS State S.516-a---Order for custody and disposal of property pending trial in certain cases---Scope---Superdari of vehicle---applicant sought release of the vehicle in question on superdari basis---applicant on the basis of reg…
2022 MLD 676 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD YOUNIS BALOCH VS CHAIRMAN, NATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY BUREAU S.497---National Accountability Ordinance (XVIII of 1999), S.9---Constitution of Pakistan, Art.199---Corruption and corrupt practices---Bail, grant of---Delay in conclusion…
2022 MLD 686 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
GHULAM HYDER VS ASIF ALI KHYBER O. XXXVII, Rr. 2 & 3---Limitation Act (IX of 1908), Art. 159---Suit for recovery---Application for leave to appear and defend a summary suit---Limitation---Scope---Respondent filed a summary suit for recovery…
2022 MLD 716 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
RIZWAN VS State S.497---Bail---Scope---Every accused will be presumed to be blue eyed boy of the law until and unless he is found guilty of the charge and law cannot be stretched upon in favour of the prosecution particularly at bail stage.
2022 MLD 716 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
RIZWAN VS State S.497---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 337-A (i), 337-A (iii), 504 & 34---Shajjah-i-khafifah, shajjah-i-hashimah, intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace and common intention---Bail, grant of---Delayed F…
2022 MLD 716 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
RIZWAN VS State Delay in lodging criminal cases has always been held fatal for the prosecution.
2022 MLD 724 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ABDUL JABBAR VS State Ss.9(c) & 29---Possession of narcotics---Appreciation of evidence---Burden of proof---Scope---Prosecution case was that 216 kilograms charas was recovered during search of secret cavity of roller loaded/lying over truc…
2022 MLD 724 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ABDUL JABBAR VS State S.9(c)---Control of Narcotic Substances (Government Analysts) Rules, 2001, R.6---Possession of narcotics---Appreciation of evidence---Report of Government Analysts---Scope---Prosecution case was that 216 kilograms char…
2022 CLC 1772 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
NIAZ AHMED VS ZAIN-UL-ABEDIN S.100---Second appeal---Scope---Scope of the second appeal is narrow and it can be exercised only if findings of fact arrived by Courts below are based upon misreading, non-reading or misinterpretation of the ev…
2022 CLC 1772 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
NIAZ AHMED VS ZAIN-UL-ABEDIN S.73---Suit for damages---Breach of contract---Compensation for failure to discharge obligation resembling those created by contract---Mental agony, presumption of---Scope---Claim of the plaintiffs was that the…
2022 CLC 1772 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
NIAZ AHMED VS ZAIN-UL-ABEDIN O.XLI, R. 31---Contents, date and signature of judgment---Framing of points for determination, non-compliance of---Effect---Framing of points for determination is mandatory in nature, however, the purpose thereo…
2022 MLD 735 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD SULEMAN VS State S.497---Control of Narcotic Substances Act (XXV of 1997), S.9(c)---Possession of narcotics---Bail, refusal of---Positive report of Chemical Examiner---Scope---Accused was alleged to have been found in possession of…
2022 MLD 768 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
GHULAM FAROOQ CHANNA VS State S.497---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss.419, 420, 468, 471 & 109---Prevention of Corruption Act (II of 1947), S. 5---Cheating by personation, cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property, forgery for pur…
2022 MLD 796 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
AKHTAR ZARIN VS State S.9(c)----Control of Narcotic Substances (Government Analysts) Rules, 2001, Rr.4 & 5---Delay in sending samples of contraband for chemical analysis---Effect---Samples were sent for chemical analysis with a delay of six…
2022 MLD 796 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
AKHTAR ZARIN VS State Witness---Minor contradictions in the statement of witnesses---Scope---Minor contradictions which did not affect the materiality of the evidence could be ignored.
2022 MLD 796 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
AKHTAR ZARIN VS State S.9(c)---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 342---Possession of narcotics---Appreciation of evidence---Defence plea---Scope---Prosecution case was that on spy information, police party signalled the car of accused…
2022 MLD 796 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
AKHTAR ZARIN VS State S.9(c)---Possession of narcotics---Appreciation of evidence---Lodging of FIR---Promptness---Prosecution case was that on spy information, police party signalled the car of accused to stop, which led the culprits in the…
2022 MLD 796 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
AKHTAR ZARIN VS State Ss.9(c) & 29---Possession of narcotics---Appreciation of evidence---Prosecution case was that 80 kilograms charas was recovered from secret cavities of the car of accused, made in different parts of the car and inside…
2022 MLD 796 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
AKHTAR ZARIN VS State S.9(c)---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S. 342---Possession of narcotics---Appreciation of evidence---Defence plea---Scope---Prosecution case was that on spy information, police party signalled the car of accused…
2022 MLD 811 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SIKANDAR ALI QURESHI VS CHAIRMAN NAB S.497(5)---National Accountability Ordinance (XVIII of 1999), S.9---Corruption and corrupt practices---Bail, cancellation of---Scope---High Court on receipt of reference from the Accountability Court reg…
2022 MLD 827 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
YASSER-UL-HAQ EFFENDI VS FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN Ss.9(a) & 4 [as amended by National Accountability (Second Amendment) Ordinance (XXVII of 2019)]---Jurisdiction of National Accountability Bureau (NAB)---Scope---Petitioners were accused facin…
2022 MLD 840 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ZABARDAST KHAN MAHAR VS The FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Chairman NAB, Islamabad O.VI, R.15---Verification of pleadings---Verification by counsel---Effect---Held, it is the litigant who has to swear an affidavit that the accompanying peti…
2022 MLD 840 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ZABARDAST KHAN MAHAR VS The FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Chairman NAB, Islamabad O. VI, R. 15---Verification of pleadings---Scope---Counsel cannot swear affidavit of facts relating to the circumstances of their client in which need for an…
2022 MLD 840 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
ZABARDAST KHAN MAHAR VS The FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN through Chairman NAB, Islamabad S.9---Constitution of Pakistan, Art.199---Corruption and corrupt practices---Bail---Reduction of surety amount---Pleadings to be signed---Verification of ple…
2022 MLD 874 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD ZAKIR VS MUHAMMAD FAISAL S.115---Revisional jurisdiction---Discretion of Courts---Scope---Revision is a matter between the higher and subordinate courts, and the right to move an application in that respect is merely a privilege---…
2022 MLD 874 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD ZAKIR VS MUHAMMAD FAISAL Ss.12, 39 & 42----Limitation Act (IX of 1908), Art.113---Agreement to sell---Limitation---Payment of part consideration---Admission---Out of total consideration some amount was paid by respondent and part p…
2022 MLD 950 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SHAHZAIB VS State Witness---Police Officials as witnesses---Reliance---Scope---Evidence of police officials were as good as the other citizens---If the whole case of the prosecution hinged upon the evidence of Police Officials, then, their…
2022 MLD 950 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SHAHZAIB VS State Principle---Each criminal case had its own peculiar facts and circumstances and the same seldom coincided with other on salient features.
2022 MLD 950 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SHAHZAIB VS State Ss.324 & 353---anti-Terrorism act (XXVII of 1997), S.7---Sindh arms act (V of 2013), S.23(1)(a)---Criminal Procedure Code (V of 1898), S.103---attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, assault or criminal force to deter public servant…
2022 MLD 950 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SHAHZAIB VS State Ss.324 & 353---anti-Terrorism act (XXVII of 1997), S. 7---Sindh arms act (V of 2013), S. 23(1)(a)---attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty, act of terrori…
2022 MLD 950 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SHAHZAIB VS State S.103---"Search to be made in presence of witnesses"---Object---Prime object of S. 103, Cr.P.C., is to ensure the transparency and fairness on the part of police during the course of recovery, so as to curb the false impli…
2022 MLD 950 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
SHAHZAIB VS State Ss.324 & 353---anti-Terrorism act (XXVII of 1997), S.7---Sindh arms act (V of 2013), S.23(1)(a)---attempt to commit qatl-i-amd, assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty, act of terrorism…
2022 MLD 975 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Syed WAQAS HASSAN RIZVI VS State S.498---Penal Code (XLV of 1860), Ss. 354, 337-J, 322, 506 & 34---Assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty, causing hurt by means of a poison, qatl-bis-sabab, criminal intimidati…
2022 MLD 986 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
WADAL GORAR VS GUL SHER S.395---Dacoity---Appreciation of evidence---Benefit of doubt---Contradictory statements---Source of light, non-availability of---Enmity between complainant and accused---Effect---Appellant/complainant assailed the a…
2022 MLD 986 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
WADAL GORAR VS GUL SHER S.417---appeal against acquittal---Scope---Presumption of double innocence is attached to the acquittal judgment, which normally does not call for interference unless the judgment or order is found to be arbitrary, c…
2022 CLC 1787 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD YOUNUS VS MANSOOR ALI (DECEASED) S. 10---Payment of rent---Scope---Where there is no evidence with regard to refusal of the landlord to accept the rent so as to provide authority or justification to the tenant to deposit the rent i…
2022 CLC 1787 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD YOUNUS VS MANSOOR ALI (DECEASED) Ss. 15 & 10---Eviction petition---Default in payment of rent---Scope---Tenants assailed orders passed by courts below whereby they were directed to vacate the demised premises---Validity---Statement…
2022 CLC 1787 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD YOUNUS VS MANSOOR ALI (DECEASED) S.15---Eviction petition---Sub-letting---Scope---Tenants assailed orders passed by courts below whereby they were directed to vacate the demised premises---Validity---Landlord had claimed that the t…
2022 CLC 1787 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD YOUNUS VS MANSOOR ALI (DECEASED) S.15---Eviction petition---Bona fide personal need---Scope---Tenants assailed orders passed by courts below whereby they were directed to vacate the demised premises---Validity---Landlord had claime…
2022 CLC 1787 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD YOUNUS VS MANSOOR ALI (DECEASED) S.15---Eviction petition---Bona fide personal need---Scope---If the statement made on oath by the landlord is consistent with the averments made by him in his ejectment application and neither is hi…
2022 CLC 1787 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
MUHAMMAD YOUNUS VS MANSOOR ALI (DECEASED) S.10---Payment of rent---Scope---Subsections (1) and (3) of S.10 prescribe the time and mode, respectively, of payment/tender of the monthly rent by the tenant---Under subsection (3), the tenant wou…
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