2001 SCMR 688 SUPREME-COURT

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AL-KARAM TRAVELS (PVT.) LTD VS EAST WEST INSURANCE CO.LTD Constitution of Pakistan 1973--185 , ----S. 15---Constitution of Pakistan (1973), Art. 185(3)---Bona fide personal need of landlord---Failure to specify about space required by the landlord for its needs---eviction of large number of tenants---Effect---Leave to appeal was granted by Supreme Court to consider that the landlord had failed to establish its bona fides and that it required the entire building in good faith for its occupation, inasmuch as the landlord's managing director, who appeared as a witness; was neither aware of the built-up area of the building nor could specify the additional space required by the landlord for its offices, such information was vital for determining the actual need of the landlord and its bona fides; that during the pendency of the eviction proceedings the landlord purchased another building in the same city but failed to explain as to why the additional accommodation would not be enough to meet its requirements that the eviction of such large number of tenants at the same time was not justified in law.