Tuesday 23 October 2012

Writ in case of interim orders of family court


  Citation Name  : 1997  PLD  431     LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
  Side Appellant : MUHAMMAD IQBAL
  Side Opponent : MUMTAZ BIBI

Constitution of Pakistan 1973 S. 14---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O.Vll, R.11 --- Constitution of Pakistan (1973), Art.199---Constitutional petition---Maintainability---Interim order passed by Family Court---Validity---Respondent (wife) filing suit for dissolution of marriage exercising her right of option of puberty---Petitioner (husband) filing application under O.VI1, R.11, C. P. C. for rejection of plaint on the strength of registered nikahnama slowing that her Ntkah was not performed during .her minority---Family Court dismv,5ing such application on ground that application under O.VII, R.Y11, C.P.C was not maintainable in family suit--Such interlocutory order challenged in Constitutional petition---Held, S.14 of West Pakistan Family Courts Act, 1964 provided for an appeal and excluded right of appeal against interim order---Any statute which excludes right of appeal against an interim order could not be bypassed by assailing the same through Constitutional petition. (p. 433) A Mst. Basra v. Abdul Hakim and others PLD 1986 Quetta 298 and Mst. Zohran Bibi v. Manzoor Ahmad and others PLD 1975 Lah. 318 ref.