Legal Principle & Question Decided

Ruling Summary: This decision was rendered by the Sindh High Court, officially reported as 2024 SHC 318. In this matter between Const. P. 198/2024 (S.B.) Sindh High Court, Karachi - Muhammad Khalid Sheikh S/o Muhammad Yousuf Sheikh (Petitioner) and the Respondent, the court adjudicated key questions of statutory construction, procedural regularity, and legal precedent under Pakistani law.

Core Holding: The honorable bench evaluated governing statutory provisions and judicial authorities to establish the rights of the parties, delivering the binding reasoning set out below.

Full Judgment Text & Judicial Ruling

COURT: Sindh High Court CASE NO: Const. P. 198/2024 (S.B.) Sindh High Court, Karachi CITATION: 2025 SHC KHI 315 PARTIES: Muhammad Khalid Sheikh S/o Muhammad Yousuf Sheikh (Petitioner) ORDER DATE: 08-APR-25 BENCH: Hon'ble Mr. Justice Adnan-ul-Karim Memon(Author) A.F.R: Yes ------------------------------------------------------------ ORDER SHEET IN THE HIGH COURT OF SINDH AT KARACHI C.P No.S-198 of 2024 (Muhammad Khalid Sheikh v Province of Sindh & others) ______________________________________________________________ Date Order With Signature Of Judge ______________________________________________________________

Date of hearing and order 07.04.2025

None present for the Petitioner. Mr. Ali Safdar Depar, AAG. Mr. Qamaruddin No hri, DPG along with DSP Raza Mian, DSP Legal -II, CPO, SIP Abdul Lateef. -------------

O R D E R Adnan-ul-Karim Memon, J: The Petitioner is the owner of the property i.e Flat No. M 318, on third Floor, Al -Ghafoor Aveue, plot No. FL -11 Sector 11- A, North Karachi; that property was rented out to the respondent No.06 on 20.02.2020 against the advance payment of Rs. 100,000/ - and on monthly Rent of Rs. 12,000/- with enhancement of 10% on every year; that the montly rent was paid by the respondent No.06 til l June 2023, thereafter the Respondent No.06 committed defult in payment and did not pa y the monthly Rent from July 2023, hence the petitioner demand vacation of his property. The Respondents are acting in violation of constitutional provisions and illegally and unlawfully harassing the Petitioner with malafide intenti ons. The Respondents have committed offenses under the law through illegal harassment and threats against the Petitioner. Respondents No. 2 to 5 are duty-bound to initiate departmental and legal action against Respondents No. 6 in accordance with the law. The Petitioner avers that the actions of the Respondents are illegal, not permissible under the law, and unsustainable under the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973. The impugned acts of the Respondents are ultra vires the legislative fr amework, inoperative, void, cnconstitutional, and unreasonable. 2. Admittedly, this is the case of harassment at hands of police in connivance with private respondents. The main objectives of police is to apprehend offenders, investigate crimes, and pro secute them before the cours also to prevent to commission of crime, and above all ensure law and order to protect citizen’s life and property. 3. Learned A.A.G. submits that no harassment shall be caused to the petitioner. Consequently, this petition is hereby disposed of on these terms.

JUDGE Shafi

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