Writ Petition Regarding Overseas Scholarship Accepted

PLJ      1996     Lahore High Court     345

Present to: MALIK MUHAMMAD QAYYUM

 IHSANULLAH BAJWA
Versus
CHAIRMAN, CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING DEPARTMENT, and

 -Art. 199--Overseas scholarship-Refusal to grant of--Challenge to-Whether Constitutional petition is not maintainable-Question of-Contention that petitioner has no vested right and cannot maintain petition-Held: It is since long well established that 'right' considered sufficient for maintaining a constitutional petition need not be 'right' in strict juristic and legal sense, but if petitioner is able to show that he has been deprived of some benefit by non- observance of law by statutory functionaries, he is entitled to maintain constitutional petition.

Judgement Result: Petition accepted.