Law: Constitution of Pakistan, 1973

Section: 199

Constitution of Pakistan (1973)--   ---Art.199--Constitutional petition--Discretionary jurisdiction, exercise of--Counsel not producing necessary documents--Consequences of-­Counsel for petitioners refusing to produce necessary documents required for disposal of case on merits and insisting that matter should be decided on basis of documents already on file--No attempts made by counsel to procure those documents--High Court, held, was justified in dismissing writ petition in its discretionary jurisdiction.   ORDER MUHAMMAD AFZAL ZULLAH, J.--Leave to appeal has been sought in this election matter against the dismissal of a Constitutional petition by the High Court. It has been observed in the impugned order as follows:---- The learned counsel refused to accept any adjournment of the case in order to place on record the required documents and insisted that the matter should be decided on the basis of the two documents already placed on file of this case. We asked the learned counsel whether an application was made for obtaining the copies of the required documents. He answered in the negative. On our further question whether a written application was filed before the…

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