Case Details

Citation(s)
2025 SLG 4663 2025 SLD 4663 = 2013 LHC 3168
Lahore High Court
W.P.No.13689/2013
PRESENT; (ABID AZIZ SHEIKH) JUDGE
02.12.2013 Sardar Faisal Mehmood Tangwani, Advocate for the petitioner. Rana Muhammad Hussain, AAG with Mr. Masood Ahmed, Law Officer for Commissioner and Mureed Hussain, Political Tehsildar.

Shahid Ahmed

VERSUS

DCO etc.

Law: Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC), 1898

Section: 8 (1) (2)

Core Legal Points

Delimitation under Section 8(1) is mandatory; Section 8(2) is directory (“as far as possible”).

Authorities have discretion in applying principles of compactness and equal population.

Judicial interference is limited — only if action is mala fide, arbitrary, or ultra vires.

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