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(a) Administration of justice--- ----Concurrent civil and criminal proceedings---Stay of criminal proceedings---Principles---Object of a civil proceeding is to enforce civil rights and obligations while that of a criminal proceeding is to punish the offender for the commission of an offence---Therefore, both the civil proceeding and criminal proceeding relating to one and the same matter can be instituted and ordinarily proceeded with simultaneously---Although there is no bar to the simultaneous institution of both proceedings, the trial in the criminal proceeding may be stopped in certain circumstances---Guiding principle in this regard is that where the criminal liability is dependent upon or intimately connected with the result of the civil proceeding and it is difficult to draw a line between a bona fide claim and the criminal act alleged, the trial in the criminal proceeding may be postponed till the conclusion of the civil proceeding---Thus, where either of these two conditions is not fulfilled, i.e., where the subject matter of civil proceeding and that of criminal proceeding are distinct, not intimately connected, or where the civil proceeding is instituted mala fide to delay the criminal prosecution, not bona fide, the criminal proceeding may not be stayed. Aslam Zaheer v. Shah Muhammad 2003 SCMR 1691; Rafique Bibi v. Muhammad Sharif 2006 SCMR 512; Khalid Saleem v. Muhammad Ashraf 2006 SCMR 1192; Seema Fareed v. State 2008 SCMR 839; Sikandar Ali v. SHO 2021 SCMR 1486; Muhammad Akbar v. State PLD 1968 SC 281; Manak Ji v. Fakhar Iqbal 1969 PCr.LJ 411; Muhammad Tufail v. State 1979 SCMR 437; Abdul Haleem v. State 1982 SCMR 988; Habib Ahmed v. M.K.G. Scott Christian PLD 1992 SC 353; Muhammad Anwar v. Badshah Begum 1999 SCMR 1475; Sheraz Ahmad v. Fayyaz-ud -Din 2005 SCMR 1599; Abdul Ahad v. Amjad Ali PLD 2006 SC 771; Zafar v. Umar Hayat 2010 SCMR 1816; Muhammad Azam v. Muhammad Iqbal PLD 1984 SC 95; Muhammad Aslam v. State 2017 SCMR 390 and Mohammad Ahmad v. State 1972 SCMR 85 ref. (b) Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908)--- ----S. 9 O. VII, R. 11---Civil Court---Bar of jurisdiction---Scope---Rejection of plaint, application for---Bar on the jurisdiction of the…

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