Case Details

Citation(s)
2026 SLG 2353 2026 SLD 2353 = 2026 MLD 615
Sindh High Court
High Court Appeal No. 90 of 2024, decided on 28th March, 2024.
Presented By: Muhammad Shafi Siddiqui and Omar Sial, JJ
    Haji Abdul Karim v. Florida Builders (Pvt.) Ltd. PLD 2012 SC 247 rel.        Ms. Rizwana Ismail and Noor Muhammad for Appellants.        Ayan Mustafa Memon, assisted by Muhammad Wasey Noor, Tahoora Anwer and Tarawish Javaid Chhattari for
Respondent No. 6.        Zeeshan Adhi, Addl. A.G. Sindh for Province of Sindh Official
Respondents.

BASHAM BALOCH and 5 others---Appellants

VERSUS

PROVINCE OF SINDH through Chief Secretary and others---Respondents

Law: Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908)

Section: O.VII, R.11

Law: Specific Relief Act (I of 1877)

Section: 42, 54

 Sindh Tenancy Act (XX of 1950) Ss. 2 & 4---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O.VII, R.11---Specific Relief Act (I of 1877), Ss. 42 & 54---Declaration and injunction--- Rejecting of plaintiff--- Appellants / plaintiffs sought declaration to the effect that they were tenants / Hari of suit land, owned by Provincial Government and they were entitled to execution of 99 years lease in their favour--- Trial Court rejected the suit as the same was barred under law--- Validity--- It is not always that scope of S.42 of Specific Relief Act, 1877 is seen dependent on a trial--- Legal character that appellants / plaintiffs brought forward through High Court in respect of land and their entitlement and claimed relief would explicitly show that it was alien to the subject law i.e. Sind Tenancy Act, 1950--- If scope of suit and relief claimed was beyond comprehension of law then it was nothing but a misuse of process of Court and should be buried--- Appellants / plaintiffs had no right or legal status / character over suit land--- There was no value in prolonging subject suit as plaintiffs / appellants neither had a cause to continue subject leases nor any inherent legal character attached to subject of suit--- Division Bench of High Court declined to interfere in the judgment passed by Trial Court rejecting the suit--- Intra Court Appeal was dismissed in circumstances.           Dates of hearing: 11th, 12th, 14th, 15th and 18th March, 2024.                                                                                               Judgment         Muhammad Shafi Siddiqui, J.---Appellants having no status attached to the land seek a declaration that they may be declared as tenants/ Haris of suit land/property measuring 96 Acres of agriculture land situated in Na-Class 376, Deh Phihai (Land), and are inter alia entitled to 99 years lease. While the two…
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