MUHAMMAD SHAFI vs The CHAIRMAN, UNION COMMITTEE, LAHORE and 2 — 1972 PCRLJ 73

Citation: 1972 PCRLJ 73

Court: Lahore High Court

Year: 1971

Decision Date: 1971-06-25

Parties: MUHAMMAD SHAFI vs The CHAIRMAN, UNION COMMITTEE, LAHORE and 2 otherss

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Case cited as 1972 PCRLJ 73

Judgment Text

Court Name: Lahore High Court Judge(s): Muhammad Afzal Cheema Title:MUHAMMAD SHAFI vs The CHAIRMAN, UNION COMMITTEE, LAHORE and 2 otherss Case No.: Criminal Miscellaneous No. 1407 of 1966 Date of Judgment:1971-06-25 Reported As: 1972 P Cr. L J 73 Result: Petition allowed Judgment ORDER The facts giving rise to this petition under section 561/A, Cr. P. C. briefly are that Muhammad Shah, petitioner, and Mst. Yasmin, respondent No. 2, were admittedly married on the 6th of July 1960. According to the petitioner he divorced her on the 13th of May 1961, and sought to be established by a certified copy of the relevant entry from the register of the petition-writer placed on the record. Notwithstanding this the respondent brought a suit for dissolution of marriage which was decreed on the 22nd of January 1962. On the 20th of April 1962, she moved an application before the Chairman of the Union Commit tee under section 6 of Ordinance VIII of 1961, seeking restoration of her dower as also for proceedings against the petitioner for having contracted a second marriage during the subsistence of his marriage with her. It appears that without constituting an Arbitration Council the Chairman directed the petitoner to pay the divorcee a sum of Rs. 5,000 on account of dower and also proceeded to convict him with an award of six months' simple imprisonment and a fine of Rs. 2,000 under section 6 (5) (b) of the Ordinance. Feeling aggrieved he preferred a revision petition before the…

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