Law: Lahore High Court (Establishment of Benches) Rules, 1981

Section: 5

  Lahore High Court (Establishment of Benches) Rules, 1981--- ----R. 5---Special permission to file Constitutional petition at the principal seat of High Court---Constitutional petition proposed to be made by petitioner was against S.H.O.,-Police Station and others which area was within jurisdiction  of  Rawalpindi  Bench  of  the  High Court---Petitioner was not allowed to file Constitutional petition at the principal seat---Reasons stated. If the prosecution of the writ petition at Rawalpindi exposed the petitioner to some trouble at the hands of his opponents, he would be similarly exposed at Lahore as well. On the other hand, his adversaries would have to suffer more bother and expense for coming to Lahore to defend his writ petition than the bother and expense to which they would be put for doing so at Rawalpindi because, to them Rawalpindi was nearer than Lahore. High Court therefore declined the permission to file Constitutional petition al the Principal Seat of High Court at Lahore. Petitioner in person. ORDER   This is a civil miscellaneous petition by one Maqbool -Hussain Tahir, under rule 5 of the Lahore High Court (Establishment of Benches) Rules, 1981, for special permission to file a writ petition at the Principal Seat of this Court. The writ petition proposed to be made by the petitioner would be against the S.H.O., Police Station, Nila, Tehsil and District Chakwal, and others. It is appended to the miscellaneous petition in hand. The petitioner's grievance as voiced in the writ petition is that some persons attacked his house and forcibly removed the gate of his house. According to him, he moved the said S.H.O. for recovery of his gate but he did not take due interest in the matter. He, therefore, desires that…