Case Details

Citation(s)
1993 SLG 2167 1993 SLD 2167 = 1993 PLD 293
Sindh High Court



Law:

Section:

Sindh Rented Premises Ordinance (XVII of 1979)--

S. 10 --- Payment of rent --- Remittance of rent through money order -- Proof --- Postal receipts, evidentiary value of --- Mere production of receipt of payment issued for emitting the amount by money order would be reckoned by itself to be the proof of payment of rent --- Where photostat copies of postal receipts of money orders whereby tenant had remitted rent to landlord were filed in Court and accepted without any objection from landlord, those receipts would stand proved and would be taken to be the proof of payment of rent under S.10(4), Sindh Rented Premises Ordinance, 1979 --- No default in payment of rent was, thus, committed by tenant --- Receipts for remittance of rent through money orders having been proved by tenant, she was not required to have produced money order coupons and prove the same by examining any one from the Postal Department --- Tenant thus, had not committed default in payment of rent.

984 CLC 1815; PLD 1991 Kar. 452; 1987 SCMR 1313; PLD 1990 SC 389; 1989 SCMR 1670 and 1984 CLC 2449 reE

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