Haji BASHIR AHMAD vs HIGH COURT BAR ASSOCIATION — 1961 PLD 537

Citation: 1961 PLD 537

Court: Lahore High Court

Year: 1969

Decision Date: 1969-05-09

Parties: Haji BASHIR AHMAD vs HIGH COURT BAR ASSOCIATION

Headnotes

Case cited as PLD 1961 SC 537

Judgment Text

Court Name: Lahore High Court Judge(s): Sheikh Anwarul Haq, Shafi-ur-Rehman Title: Haji BASHIR AHMAD vs HIGH COURT BAR ASSOCIATION Case No.: Letters Patent Appeal No. 161 of 1969 Date of Judgment:1969-05-09 Reported As: PLD 1970 Lahore 45 Result: accordingly dismiss JUDGMENT JUDGMENT ANWARUL HAQ, J.-This order will dispose of Letters Patent Appeals bearing Nos. 161, 165, 166, 168 and 169 of 1969, which are by nine out of 18 persons who have been declared to be touts by our learned brother Bashir-ud-Din Ahmad, J., and have been forbidden from entering the precincts of the Courts. It has further been directed in the order dated the 28th of March 1969 that the names of these persons shall be published in the Gazette as touts. The proceedings were taken against 20 persons, two of whom, namely, Messrs Muhammad Ayub and Maula Dad were, however, excluded from the declaration, on the ground that they were practising members of the Bar and action against them was being taken separately by the Bar Council. 2. The proceedings against the appellants and others were initiated by means of a requisition (Exh. P. A.) submitted to the President of the High Court Bar Association at Lahore (hereinafter referred to as the Association) by 16 members of the Association calling for a special general meeting to "consider the steps to be taken to remove the menace of some undesirable lawyers, i.e. Raja Maula Dad alias M. D. Janjua and Raja Muhammad Ayub, and the touts from the premises of the High…

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