Law: Cooperative Societies Act, 1925

Section: 71

Co-operative Societies Act (VII of 1925)--- ----S.71---Election---’Limine control’, doctrine of---Candidates/petitioner failed to disclose their occupation/profession in Column (3) of nomination papers---Nomination papers were rejected by Convenor Election Sub-Committee and their appeals and revisions were dismissed by Deputy Registrar Cooperative Societies and Secretary Cooperative Societies, respectivelys argued that they were retired employees and they were not engaged in any professional activity/business to be considered as their source of earning/ occupation hence it was not worth mentioning in their nomination papers---Held, that in all the impugned orders, respondents/authorities had observed that the petitioners had not provided mandatory information regarding their profession/occupation in the nomination papers---Each of the columns of nomination papers had to be filled either way which the petitioner had not filled---If the argument that petitioner were retired employees hence it was not important to fill occupational/ business column, was admitted as correct, even then the petitioners had the opportunity to mention the occupational/ business as ‘Retired Employees’ in Column (3) of the nomination papers which was mandatory requirement on the basis of which their qualification/ disqualification could be determined---Constitutional petition was dismissed in limine. Asif Saleem v. Chairman BOG University of Lahore and others PLD 2019 Lah. 407 rel. ORDER JAWAD HASSAN, JUSTICE:---.---Through the instant Constitutional petition filed under Article 199 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973 (the ‘Constitution’), the Petitioners have challenged order dated 05.01.2022 passed by the Respondent No.2/Secretary Co-operative Societies, Lahore whereby revision petition filed against orders dated 30.12.2021 and 21.12.2021 of Deputy Registrar Cooperative Societies, Lahore and Convener Election Sub-Committee was dismissed. 2. Learned counsel for the Petitioners inter alia contends that impugned orders are against the law and facts; that the impugned orders have been passed in a mechanical way as such the same are the result of mis-reading and…

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