Application under Section 12(2) CPC — Court’s Discretion in Framing Issues and the Expanded Meaning of “Person”
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دفعہ 12(2) ضابطہ دیوانی کے تحت درخواست — مسائل مرتب کرنے میں عدالت کی صوابدید اور “شخص” کے وسیع مفہوم کی تشریح
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پس منظرِ مقدمہ
دفعہ 12(2) کے تحت طریقۂ کار
عدالت کی صوابدید
“شخص” کا مفہوم
علیحدہ دعویٰ کی ممانعت
Must read Judgement
P L D 2024 Supreme Court 262
Present: Qazi Faez Isa, C.J., Muhammad Ali Mazhar and Musarrat Hilali, JJ
Hafiz Malik KAMRAN AKBAR and others---Petitioners
Versus
MUHAMMAD SHAFI (deceased) through L.Rs. and others---Respondents
Civil Petition No. 2341-L of 2016, decided on 2nd January, 2024.
(Against the order dated 19.5.2016 passed by Lahore High Court, Lahore, in C.M. 723 of 2016 in R.S.A No. 61 of 1998).
(a) Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908)---
----S. 12(2)---Application under section 12(2), C.P.C---Framing of issues and recording of evidence---Discretion of Court---For determining the grounds of alleged fraud, misrepresentation or want of jurisdiction, if any, raised in the application moved under section 12(2), C.P.C., the Court is not obligated in each and every case to frame issues mandatorily in order to record the evidence of parties and exactly stick to the procedure prescribed for decision in the suit but it always rests upon the satisfaction of the Court to structure its proceedings and obviously, after analyzing the nature of allegations of fraud or misrepresentation, the Court may decide whether the case is fit for framing of issues and recording of evidence, without which the allegations leveled in the application filed under Section 12(2), C.P.C. cannot be decided.
Ghulam Muhammad v. M. Ahmad Khan and 6 others 1993 SCMR 662; Mrs. Amina Bibi through General Attorney v. Nasrullah and others 2000 SCMR 296 and Amiran Bibi and others v. Muhammad Ramazan and others 1999 SCMR 1334 ref.
(b) Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908)---
----S. 12(2)---Application under section 12(2), C.P.C---'Person' competent to file such an application---Scope---Person can challenge the validity of a judgment, decree, or order on plea of fraud and misrepresentation or want of jurisdiction under Subsection (2) of Section 12 C.P.C. by making an application with full particulars of the fraud and misrepresentation to the Court which passed the final judgment, decree, or order and not by a separate suit---Term "person" provided in this section cannot be interpreted narrowly to restrict its scope and application only to the judgment-debtor or his successors but it includes any person adversely affected by the judgment and decree or order of the Court without any distinction on whether he was party to the original proceedings or not.
Sardar Muhammad Ramzan, Advocate Supreme Court for Petitioners.
Nemo for Respondents