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| 2026 SLG 3748 = 2026 SLD 3748 |
C.R.P. No. 825/2024 & F.C.R.P. No. 44/2025 in C.P.L.A. No. 304/2022
Presented By: Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi JUDGE
For the Review Petitioners : Barrister Qasim Chohan, ASC (in CRP 825/2024) Ms. Misbah Gulnar Sharif, ASC Mr. Shehryar Tariq, Chief Legal Advisor (in FCRP 44/2025) For the Federation : Ch. Aamer Rehman, Addl. AGP For ICT : Mr. Naveed Hayat Malik, AG Islamabad Mr. Jameel Fayyaz, State Counsel For
Respondent No.1/The Monal : Mr. Muhammad Ahsan Bhoon, ASC Mr. Saad Mumtaz Hashmi, ASC (in both cases) For
Respondent No.2/MCI : Barrister Qasim Chohan, ASC (in FCRP 44/2025) Date of Hearing : 13.07.2026
Metropolitan Corporation through its Chief Officer, Old (CRP 825/2024) Naval Headquarters, G-6, Islamabad Capital Development Authority, through its Chairman, (FCRP 44/2025) Islamabad, and others ..…Review Petitioner(s)
VERSUS
Monal Group of Companies through its Sole Proprietor, (CRP 825/2024) Lahore & others The Monal Group of Companies, through its Sole (FCRP 44/2025) Proprietor & other ..…Respondent(s)
Law: Code Of Civil Procedure, 1908.
Section: 115
Law: Islamabad Nature Conservation and Wildlife Management Act, 2024
Section: 3,12(3),(4)
Summary of the Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan Order (13 July 2026)
Background
The case concerns the Monal Restaurant located in the Margalla Hills National Park (MHNP), Islamabad. The dispute arose over which government authority had the legal power to lease the restaurant site:
- Capital Development Authority (CDA) leased the site to Monal in 2006 for 15 years.
- In 2019, the Remount, Veterinary and Farms Directorate (RV&FD) claimed ownership of the land and signed a new lease with Monal.
- Monal filed a civil suit seeking a declaration that its lease with RV&FD was valid and that CDA could not claim rent.
- At the same time, the Metropolitan Corporation sought Monal's eviction.
While these civil suits were still pending, the Islamabad High Court decided several environmental cases relating to MHNP together with Monal's interim appeals and declared the 2019 lease void. The Supreme Court later upheld that judgment in August 2024 and further ruled that all restaurant leases in MHNP were illegal.
The Metropolitan Corporation and CDA then filed these review petitions.