Trial /Non-providing of documents collected during inquiry.
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عدالتی یا نیم عدالتی کارروائی میں انصاف کے بنیادی اصولوں کی پاسداری ضروری ہے، خاص طور پر جب کسی فریق کے خلاف شواہد استعمال کیے جا رہے ہوں۔
یہ فیصلہ اس اصول کو واضح کرتا ہے کہ کسی بھی عدالتی یا نیم عدالتی کارروائی میں انصاف کے بنیادی اصولوں کی پاسداری ضروری ہے، خاص طور پر جب کسی فریق کے خلاف شواہد استعمال کیے جا رہے ہوں۔
اہم نکات:
1. انکوائری اور ثبوتوں کی فراہمی:
2. منصفانہ سماعت
(Due Process)
اور شفاف ٹرائل
(Fair Trial):
3. عدالت کا مؤقف:
4. فیصلہ:
Must reaf judgement.
2024 C L C 928
[Islamabad]
Before Aamer Farooq, CJ
C.M. PAK. LIMITED through duly authorized Attorney----Appellant
Versus
PAKISTAN TELECOMMUNICATION AUTHORITY (PTA) through Chairman and another----Respondents
F.A.O. No.108 of 2021, decided on 20th November, 2023.
Pakistan Telecommunication (Re-organization) Act (XVII of 1996)---
----Ss. 7(1) & 23---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 10A---Charging of tariff---Inquiry---Due process and fair trial---Non-providing of documents collected during inquiry---Appellant company was aggrieved of order passed by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority in consequence of show cause notice---Validity---Appellant company did not have advantage of material / evidence collected by the Authority during visit to the office of appellant company---If such material was inculpatory or had information against appellant company, it was of utmost importance that it should have been confronted to appellant company---Failure on the part of Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to share such material and passing decision on the basis thereof had defeated ends of justice---Proceedings before Pakistan Telecommunication Authority were in the nature of quasi-judicial and it was of paramount importance that tenets of justice should have been adhered to---High Court set aside order passed by Pakistan Telecommunication Authority as the act of not sharing material gathered during visit of office of appellant company violated basic principle of justice viz due process and fair trial---High Court remanded the matter to Pakistan Telecommunication Authority for decision afresh---Appeal was allowed accordingly.
Taimoor Aslam Khan for Appellant.
Salman Mansoor along with Adil Javed, AD (Legal), PTA.