جبری گمشدگی Enforced disappearance He filed a writ of habeas corpus in the High Court that his brother was illegally detained by the Punjab government.
انتظامیہ کو احتیاطی نظر بندی کا اختیار حاصل ہے، مگر یہ اختیار غیر محدود یا من مانا نہیں۔ عدالتی صوابدید کا تقاضا یہ ہے کہ قانون کے مطابق دیے گئے اختیار کو بھی قانون ہی کے مقرر کردہ طریقے سے استعمال کیا جائے، بصورتِ دیگر ایسا اقدام غیر قانونی تصور ہو گا۔
فیصلے کا تعارف اور نوعیت
احتیاطی نظر بندی اور قانونی معیار
الزام کی نوعیت اور شواہد کا فقدان
ڈپٹی کمشنر اور پولیس رپورٹ کا قانونی تجزیہ
عدالتی صوابدید اور اس کی حدود
Habeas Corpus اور آئینی تحفظ
قانونی کہاوت اور اس کا اطلاق
عدالت کا حتمی نتیجہ
قانونی اہمیت اور نظیر
Must read judgement
2024 M L D 298
[Lahore]
Before Farooq Haider, J
KAMRAN KHAN---Petitioner
Versus
GOVERNMENT OF PUNJAB and others---Respondents
Writ Petition No. 34019 of 2023, decided on 25th May, 2023.
(a) Punjab Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance (XXXI of 1960)---
----S. 3---Power to arrest and detain suspected persons---Detention based on apprehension---Legality---Petitioner sought an order directing the Provincial Government to release his brother---Before passing a detention order of a person under S. 3 of the Punjab Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance, 1960, the competent authority must have reasons to believe that the said person, within its territorial jurisdiction, has acted, is acting, or is about to act in a manner prejudicial to public safety or the maintenance of public order---However, perusal of the available record reveals that allegation against the detenu is general in nature i.e. he was delivering speeches against Government of Pakistan, National Security Agencies and persuading the people to create law and order situation in the district but no solid or cogent evidence/material in order to establish the same was produced before the Deputy Commissioner---Furthermore, no audio/video recording of speech, voice transcript in this regard or exact wording in written form of the same was mentioned in the impugned order as well as reports and parawise comments and even any such like material/evidence was not produced before the court---Perusal of report of District Police Officer does not reflect any material to invoke subsection (1) of S. 3 of the Punjab Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance, 1960 except apprehensions---Apprehensions without any valid reasons and not supported by any cogent material cannot be allowed to be the basis for curtailing the rights, liberty or freedom of any citizen, which is guaranteed by the Constitution---Detenu was ordered to be released and the Constitutional petition was accepted.
(b) Punjab Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance (XXXI of 1960)---
----S. 3---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Power to arrest or detain suspected persons---Habeas corpus---Maintainability---Scope---Where the petitioner filed a Constitutional petition seeking release of his brother detained on the strength of an order under S. 3 of the Punjab Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance, 1960, the State objected to the maintainability of the petition due to non-filing of representation by the detenu before the Provincial government---Held; right to file petition of instant nature i.e. habeas corpus is remedy provided by the Constitution in all matters of illegal confinement as one of fundamental rights; it goes without saying that if arrest of a person for the purpose of "Preventive Detention" cannot be justified in the eyes of law, then there is no reason why said person should not invoke jurisdiction of High Court for his immediate release---Objection was turned down.
Muhammad Irshad v. Government of the Punjab and others 2020 PCr.LJ 206 rel.
Abdul Rauf v. Government of Punjab and others 2023 LHC 2697 ref.
(c) Maxim---
----'A communi observantia non est recedendum'---Scope---When law requires a thing to be done in a particular manner, it should be done in that manner otherwise same would be deemed as illegal.
Muhammad Zafar Iqbal v. Sadozai Khan and 2 others 2021 YLR 1206 and Maqsood Yameen v. R.P.O. Multan and others 2015 PCr.LJ 923 ref.
Ch. Ali Murtaza for Petitioner.
Umar Arshad Butt, Assistant Advocate General, Punjab along with Ishtiaq, SI and Jameel Ahmad, Assistant Commissioner (HR, Co-ordination) office of Deputy Commissioner, Narowal for Respondents
