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Petitioner: ABDUL QADIR VS Respondent: THE STATE
Court Name: Supreme Court of Pakistan Judge(s): Abdul Hameed Dogar, Karamat Nazir Bhandari, Rana Bhagwan Das Title: ABDUL QADIR vs THE STATE Case No.: Criminal Petition No, 103-K of 2002 Date of Judgment:2002-12-11 Reported As: 2004 SCMR 1522 Result: Leave refused
Judgment ORDER ' RANA BAGHWANDAS, J.---Grievance of petitioner is directed against an order of the Sindh High Court whereby a criminal revision petition was dismissed as not pressed by the counsel. 2. It is, inter alia, contended that the petitioner had not instructed the counsel to withdraw the petition before the learned High Court and he acted beyond the scope of authority. We do not agree with the submission of the learned counsel as by executing a power-of attorney/Vakalatnama in favour of a counsel, he is given authority to act, A appear and plead on behalf of his client which would include implied authority to withdraw a cause and to settle the dispute on behalf of the client. Learned counsel admits that no complaint has been lodged against the counsel before any forum. There is thus no ground to interfere with the impugned order which does not suffer from any legal infirmity. 3. Petition is thus dismissed and leave to appeal refused.