Family Settlement Challenge Dismissed: No Fraud Found in Property Dispute – 2023 MLD 201 Islamabad
فیملی سیٹلمنٹ کے بعد ڈگری کو چیلنج کرنا ناقابلِ قبول قرار – ایک قانونی جائزہ
بھائیوں سے 25 ملین روپے (ڈھائی کروڑ) لے کر ایک فیملی سیٹلمنٹ پر دستخط کیے،
سیکشن 12(2) کے تحت ڈگری کو صرف دھوکہ دہی، غلط بیانی یا عدالت کی دائرہ اختیار سے باہر فیصلے کی بنیاد پر ہی چیلنج کیا جا سکتا ہے
جائیداد کی قیمت میں اضافے کو بنیاد بنا کر ڈگری کو چیلنج کرنا قانوناً ناقابلِ قبول
نتیجہ:
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Citation Name : 2023 MLD 201 ISLAMABAD
Side Appellant : RUBINA AMJAD
Side Opponent : JAVAID SHAFIQUE SIDDIQUI
S. 12(2) ---Specific Relief Act (I of 1877), Ss. 39, 42 & 54---Decree, setting aside of---Principle---Educated woman---No allegation of fraud, misrepresentation and jurisdiction---Effect---Petitioner and respondents were brothers and sisters inter se and dispute pertained to family settlement of different properties subject matter of different civil suits---Petitioner received Rs.25 million and entered into total settlement resultantly suits were decreed accordingly---Validity---Decree could not be challenged on merits by filing application under S. 12(2) , C.P.C., which was limited in scope and could be invoked for setting aside a decree on the ground of fraud, misrepresentation or want of jurisdiction---Court while dealing with application under S. 12(2) , C.P.C. could not sit as court of appeal but had to see whether order, judgment or degree was obtained by fraud or representation, or was passed by a Court having no jurisdiction over the matter---Petitioner was not a downtrodden illiterate woman who could not appreciate import and meaning of agreement that she was signing---Petitioner was an educated woman who, 2 years and 9 months after the judgment and degree, had filed application under S. 12(2) , C.P.C. in an effort to undo consequences of settlement agreement---One of the consequences of agreement in question was disposal of suits---Petitioner had received Rs.25 million from her brothers by virtue of that agreement---Increase in value of property in share from her mother after execution of settlement agreement could not become a valid cause under S. 12(2) , C.P.C. for holding that judgment and decree was obtained by fraud---High Court declined to interfere in judgment and decree passed by Trial Court---Constitutional petition was dismissed, in circumstances.