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| 2016 SLG 380 2016 SLD 380 2016 PLD 1 |
Balochistan High Court
Constitutional Petitions Nos. 871 to 889, 896 of 2014 and 216, 351 and 371 of 2015, decided on 25th May, 2015. Dates of hearing: 21st April, 5th and 6th May, 2015.
MUHAMMAD NOOR MESKANZAI, C.J. AND MUHAMMAD HASHIM KHAN KAKAR, J
Barrister Adnan A. Kassi for Petitioners (in C.Ps. Nos. 871 to 889 and 896 of 2014. Muhammad Javed Ahmed for Petitioners (in C.P.No. 216 of 2015). Azmatullah Khan Kassi for Petitioners (in C.P.No. 351 of 2015). Manzoor Ahmed Rehmani for Petitioners (in
Constitutional Petitions Nos. 871 to 889, 896 of 2014 and 216, 351 and 371 of 2015, decided on 25th May, 2015. Dates of hearing: 21st April, 5th and 6th May, 2015.
MUHAMMAD NOOR MESKANZAI, C.J. AND MUHAMMAD HASHIM KHAN KAKAR, J
Barrister Adnan A. Kassi for Petitioners (in C.Ps. Nos. 871 to 889 and 896 of 2014. Muhammad Javed Ahmed for Petitioners (in C.P.No. 216 of 2015). Azmatullah Khan Kassi for Petitioners (in C.P.No. 351 of 2015). Manzoor Ahmed Rehmani for Petitioners (in
NAJEEBULLAH and others
VS
DIRECTOR NADRA, BALOCHISTAN, QUETTA and others
Law: National Database and Registration Authority Ordinance, 2000
Section: 18,23
Law: Constitution of Pakistan, 1973
Section: 199
(a) National Database and Registration Authority Ordinance (VIII of 2000)-- ----Ss. 18 & 23---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Constitutional petition---Maintainability---Constitutional petition filed prematurely before any final order---Availability of alternate remedy---Disputed questions of fact requiring probe/inquiry-Effect-Non-issuance/nonrenewal of Computerized National Identity Cards (CNICs)---Power of National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) to cancel, impound or confiscate CNIC---Scope and procedure---Contention of petitioners was that when they approached the National Database and Registration Authority ("NADRA") either for issuance of CNICs or for renewal of the same, certain documents were demanded to be placed before NADRA, which were, accordingly, produced, however, NADRA was reluctant to issue the CNICs---Validity---In case of any doubt, NADRA did have the authority to enquire and investigate about the CNIC issued to a person---NADRA could ask the holder of a CNIC to surrender his card (section 17 of the National Database and Registration Authority Ordinance, 2000)---NADRA had the power to cancel, impound or confiscate such card by making an order in writing under its seal or by an officer authorised by it in slick behalf (section 18(1) of the National Database and Registration Authority Ordinance, 2000)---No such like order could be made, unless such person had been given a notice in writing by calling upon him to show cause as to why the order of cancellation/impounding/confiscation should not be made---Against such an order, the remedy available to the aggrieved person was that of an appeal to the Federal Government provided under S.18(3) of the National Database and Registration Authority Ordinance 2000, within 30 days of the order---Case record of the present case revealed that neither had CNICs of the petitioners been impounded/cancelled or confiscated, nor had notices under S.17 of the National Database and Registration Authority Ordinance, 2000 been issued to them for the said purposes---Cases of the petitioners had been sent to the concerned committees for the purpose of verification and no adverse orders had been…
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