MSA Law Chamber · Case Record
Notable Judgments
Selected judgments, with personal details redacted.
Selected judgments, with personal details redacted.
A selection of judgments in matters handled by MSA Law Chamber, Karachi, including service appeals before the Sindh Service Tribunal, constitutional petitions before the High Court of Sindh, and labour and banking court cases. Each entry gives the court, case number, date and a short summary. Click a case title for a plain-English write-up of the facts, issues and outcome, or download the PDF copy (personal details redacted).
Related practice areas: Service & Administrative Law · Constitutional Law · Employment & Labour Law · Debt Recovery
Service law guides: Service law lawyer in Karachi · Sindh Service Tribunal appeals · Police service matters (Sindh)
Execution application by a reinstated police constable who was paid only 36 days’ salary, with the rest of his out-of-service period (10.02.2018 to 24.04.2025) treated as extraordinary leave without pay. He argued that the operative paragraph of the earlier judgment (“back benefits” and “leave of kind due”) did not allow this, relying on 2021 SCMR 962 and Rule 16.3 of the Police Rules, 1934. The Tribunal held the judgment had not been satisfied and directed payment of back benefits from 05.01.2018 to 24.04.2025.
Read the case summaryRecovery suit under the Financial Institutions (Recovery of Finances) Ordinance, 2001 over a personal finance facility. Decreed ex parte for Rs. 131,416.87 with cost of funds from the date of default; claimed markup and insurance charges were disallowed.
Read the case summaryGrievance application under Section 34 of the Sindh Industrial Relations Act, 2013 alleging verbal termination of a driver. Dismissed: employment with the hospital was not proved and the notices served were not valid grievance notices.
Read the case summaryPetitions by a retired Karachi Port Trust employee seeking a 2016 annual increment and dual-duty/higher-post allowance. Both petitions were dismissed, the Court noting he had already received the 2016 increment and opted out of Rule 19.
Read the case summaryAppeal by a former police constable against forfeiture of service and discharge orders of 2017-18, filed in 2025 after his departmental appeal was rejected in 2019. Dismissed in limine as time-barred; the Tribunal held the delay was not sufficiently explained.
Read the case summaryChallenge to KPT's re-designation of a BPS-19 medical post and the petitioner's transfer. The Court held the Board's delegation to the Chairman under Board Resolution No. 334 ultra vires, declared the impugned letters void and directed KPT to reconsider.
Read the case summaryAppeal by a police constable dismissed from service in 2022 on an allegation of absence from duty, which he denied. Appeal allowed; the Tribunal held a regular inquiry should not have been dispensed with and reinstated him with full back benefits.
Read the case summaryAppeal by a language teacher removed from service in 2023 on account of absence from duty. Dismissed in limine as time-barred; the Tribunal held that a second departmental appeal does not extend limitation.
Read the case summaryAppeal by a police constable discharged under Rule 12.21 of the Police Rules, 1934 after arrest in a criminal case. Following his acquittal, the Tribunal held the appeal maintainable, set aside the discharge and reinstated him with back benefits.
Read the case summaryCivil revision by a housing finance company against the dismissal of its Order VII Rule 11 CPC application in a former employee's suit over shares given under its ESOP and an alleged obligation to buy them back. Dismissed: the dispute raised factual controversies that needed evidence, and the plaint could not be rejected at that stage.
Read the case summaryAppeal by a former police constable against dismissal from service in 2018. Dismissed as not maintainable because the departmental appeal had been filed out of time, so the departmental remedy was not properly exhausted.
Read the case summaryTwo appeals by a police officer against reduction in rank and related orders. Appeal No. 877 dismissed; Appeal No. 876 partly allowed, fixing the reduction in rank at three years and directing restoration to his substantive rank from 12.12.2020 with consequential benefits.
Read the case summaryAppeal by a Senior Clerk who had served as Reader on a temporary promotion for about 22 years, against a 2021 order. Partly allowed; the Tribunal held him entitled to the higher pay and related benefits and directed the department to complete his promotion process within four months.
Read the case summaryAppeal by a former Assistant Sub-Inspector (CTD) dismissed from service in 2019 after a criminal case was registered against him, from which he was later acquitted. Appeal allowed; dismissal set aside and reinstatement ordered with back benefits.
Read the case summaryConstitutional petition against Rent Controller and appellate orders where the parties' agreement was in substance a sale agreement and the buyer had moved in as part-owner. The High Court held the buyer was not obliged to pay rent once the project was completed, set aside both impugned orders, left the dispute to the pending suit for specific performance (preferably within 90 days), and protected the petitioner from dispossession until judgment.
Read the case summaryTrial under Section 6/9(c) of the Control of Narcotic Substances Act for alleged recovery of 1100 grams of charas. The accused was acquitted on benefit of doubt: no admissible roznamcha entry, a mismatch in the mashir's signatures, safe custody of the case property not proved, a delay in sending it to the chemical examiner, and a mismatch in sample numbers.
Read the case summaryConsumer claim by a company against an event planner over allegedly defective services at its annual dinner of 25.02.2020, filed on 09.01.2021. The court refused to condone the delay under section 29(4) of the Sindh Consumer Protection Act, 2014, allowed the defendant's Order VII Rule 11 CPC application and dismissed the claim as time-barred.
Read the case summaryAppeals by Karachi Port Trust against judgments in 22 land-ownership suits. The Court held the KPT Act and port-limit notifications conferred no proprietary right on KPT over the subject lands, and dismissed the appeals.
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