Law: Constitution of Pakistan 1973

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Constitution of Pakistan (1973)--- ----Arts. .15 & 199 Freedom of movement ---Constitutional petition ---Petitioner who was professors of was selected as a participant to attend workshop abroad --- University issued -No Objection Certificate" to petitioner to attend the workshop and also granted required leave --- University, on return of petitioner, forced her to produce her Passport to university but she refused to produce the same contending that Pass ' port was her personal and private document --- When Registrar of the University tinder direction of Vice-Chancellor continued pressure upon petitioner to produce her Passport, she challenged latter in High Court filing Constitutional petition --- Held, Passport was a document which was issued -to every citizen as a matter of his right to enjoy freedom of movement --- Excepting when under relevant rules Passport was necessary to be shown as entry or exit to and from a country or unless it was required under law for investigation of a crime or for any other purpose specified by any special or general law, a citizen was entitled to keep same with as his personal property --- In absence of any rule or statute requiring petitioner to hand over Passport to the Authorities, petitioner could not be forced against her wishes to hand over her Passport Or show to Authorities that passport especially when Authorities neither were issuing entries in armed with any provision of statutory rule Authority of that Passport nor were or law under which they could inspect Passport of petitioner --- Contention of Authorities that since N.0 C. was issued by them to petitioner, had every right to check its misuse and could check entries in Passport of petitioner, was repelled. Zia Ahmed Awan for Petitioner. Rehanul Hassan Farooqui for Respondents. JUDGMENT ALI MUHAMMAD BALOCH, J.---This Constitution petition arises in the circumstances that the petitioner who is a Professor of Microbiology in the University of Karachi, had attended a Workshop on Antibody Engineering, in Beijing China, in the year 1995. The petitioner had been selected as a participant to attend the workshop abovementioned which was being organised by…