2020 CLC 1599 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH

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Haji MUHAMMAD ASHRAF QURESHI VS NANKI BAI S.2---Sindh Rented Premises Ordinance (XVII of 1979), S. 15---Application for eviction of tenant --- Power of attorney, validity of---Plea on behalf of tenant that eviction proceedings filed by attorney for the landlady before the Rent Controller had not been filed on the basis of proper General Power of Attorney establishing the actual and valid agency available with the said attorney---Held, that said matter rested between the principal (landlady) and her attorney to which the tenant (petitioner) could not claim to hold any interest to claim any right as long as the Power of Attorney was in compliance to the relevant law i.e. Powers-of-Attorney Act, 1882---No fatal defect to the said attorney was pointed out nor was any established in the concluded rent proceedings---Constitutional petition having no merits was dismissed.