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| 2025 SLG 3433 2025 SLD 3433 = 2025 MLD 630 |
Civil Misc. No. 644 of 2024, decided on 31st October, 2024.
Before Ali Baig, C.J
Muhammad Bashir for Petitioners. Basharat Ali for Contesting
Respondents (Set-I). Hujjat Ullah for
Respondents Nos. 5 and 6.
Respondents Nos. 7 to 39 have already been proceeded ex-parte vide order sheet dated 17.10.2024.
Respondents Nos. 1 to 4 absent. Date of hearing: 31st October, 2024.
TAJ MUHAMMAD and 19 others---Petitioners
VERSUS
PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT through Chief Secretary Gilgit-Baltistan Gilgit and 38 others---Respondents
Law: Code Of Civil Procedure, 1908.
Section: 24
(a) Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908)---
----S. 24---Transfer application---Bias in judge, allegation of---Plea of the petitioners was that they had lost confidence in the judge (Diamer) as he had close relations with the contesting party---Validity---Petitioners had not been able to establish that the judge had any close relations with the respondents (contesting party) as the judge belonged to Gilgit and was a Pathan by caste, who had nothing to do with the opposing party (respondents)---Petitioners had failed to mention any reasonable ground for transfer of case from the present Trial Court (Diamer) to any other Court of competent jurisdiction---Petition for transfer, being merit-less, was dismissed, in circumstances.
(b) Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908)---