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Comparative law: Indian judgments37 judgments
Supreme Court of Pakistan · Date not specified
Five separate proceedings; see the cause titles and case numbers in the attached bundle
When may an appellate court interfere with an acquittal, how does double presumption of innocence limit substitution of another view, and why are intermediary acquittals under Sections 249-A and 265-K treated differently?
Supreme Court of Pakistan · August 11, 2026
Jail Petition No. 73 of 2020 and Criminal Petition No. 174-L of 2020
Whether the ocular account, alleged ransom cash, call data, recovered school items and medical evidence, assessed cumulatively with the land dispute and acquittals of similarly placed co-accused, provided a safe basis for maintaining Abdul Razzaq's convictions.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · August 10, 2026
Civil Petition No. 624 of 2023
Whether the High Court or Supreme Court should interfere with an appellate remand granting one fair opportunity to lead evidence, and whether remanded proceedings may remain inactive merely because connected proceedings are pending before a higher court without an express stay.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · August 3, 2026
Criminal Petition No. 894 of 2026
Whether section 14A barred post-arrest bail where the FIR did not allege that the petitioner knowingly entered Pakistan illegally and instead alleged continued residence without a valid visa or permit, and whether the unresolved family and administrative status record called for further inquiry.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · July 24, 2026
C.P.L.A. No. 2793-L of 2022
Whether Article 199 could be used to reopen a dispute after the NIRC rejected a belated application under Regulation 45 read with section 12(2) CPC, and whether pension could remain withheld despite final orders granting reinstatement, continuity and back benefits.
Lahore High Court · July 23, 2026
Criminal Miscellaneous No. 33164-B of 2026
Whether Parkinsonism that impaired the petitioner's movement, speech and self-care constituted infirmity under section 497 Cr.P.C. even though he was receiving treatment in jail and was described as vitally stable.
Supreme Court of India · July 21, 2026
Criminal Appeal No. 3299 of 2026 arising out of SLP (Criminal) No. 5633 of 2026
Whether murder under Section 302 IPC is a heinous offence under the Juvenile Justice Act, 2015; whether an appellate court must obtain fresh expert assistance under Section 101(2); and what material must inform the Board’s Section 15 preliminary assessment.
Supreme Court of India · July 21, 2026
Criminal Appeal Nos. 1827–1829 of 2019 and connected appeals
Whether the trial resulting in Dr. Abdul Hameed’s conviction and death sentence was consistent with the constitutional guarantee of a fair trial and the requirements of due process.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · July 15, 2026
C.P.L.A. Nos. 2799, 2919, 3323, 5222, 5223, 5224, 5241, 5242, 5243, 5244 and 5245 of 2023
Whether the High Court could examine the validity of the PMS Rules under Article 199 despite Article 212, and whether the Rules exceeded the parent statute, unlawfully merged or changed cadres, permitted prohibited absorption, or created unconstitutional discrimination.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · July 14, 2026
C.R.P. No. 825 of 2024 and F.C.R.P. No. 44 of 2025 in C.P.L.A. No. 304 of 2022
Whether final findings on ownership, lease validity, rent entitlement, and regulatory authority could be made while the civil suits remained pending and affected persons had not received an effective opportunity of hearing, and whether review could correct the resulting miscarriage of justice.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · July 13, 2026
Constitution Petition No. 64 of 2018 and C.M.A. No. 4751 of 2019; C.P.L.A. Nos. 4613 of 2023, 2432 and 3568 of 2025
Whether the High Court could exercise jurisdiction under Article 199 to vary contractual and financial rights crystallized in an arbitral award made rule of the court, the resulting decree, and an implementing memorandum; whether later PEC guidelines could retrospectively override that framework; and whether the High Court could interfere with a separate NAB inquiry concerning an allegedly forged performance guarantee.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · July 9, 2026
C.P.L.A. 30-L of 2025 (against Lahore High Court, Bahawalpur Bench judgment dated 11 December 2024 in W.P. No. 9147 of 2017)
Whether a compromise decree affecting minors' immovable property could lawfully stand without appointment of a guardian ad litem, express leave under Order XXXII Rule 7 CPC, and required guardianship permission, and whether the High Court could reverse the revisional order under Article 199 without identifying a jurisdictional defect.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · July 3, 2026
F.C.P.L.A. No. 300 of 2025
Whether the Inspector General of Registration could assign Sub-Registrar functions on additional charge to officers outside the prescribed feeder cadre, whether Section 6 of the Registration Act validated those assignments, and whether Article 212 barred the High Court's writ jurisdiction.
Supreme Court of India · July 2, 2026
Civil Appeal No. 11950 of 2025
Whether NCLT and NCLAT orders that relied on nonexistent, wrongly cited, or falsely attributed precedents could remain legally valid, and what duties apply when AI-assisted legal research is used.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · June 30, 2026
Civil Petition for Leave to Appeal No. 1103-L of 2016
Whether an alleged oral gift recorded in a 1955 revenue mutation was legally proved so as to exclude a widow and daughters from vested inheritance rights, and whether delay, possession, and later revenue entries could substitute for proof of the gift.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · June 23, 2026
Criminal Petitions Nos. 1033 & 1036 of 2024; Crl. M.A. No. 1207/2024 in Crl.P.L.A. No. 1033/2024
What must a trial court do when a witness shows that the written deposition does not accurately reproduce testimony preserved in a video recording?
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · June 10, 2026
C.P.L.A. No. 4245 of 2022 and C.M.A. No. 10808 of 2022
Whether compulsory Armed Forces service had to be counted under Section 9A for a later OGDCL employee, whether Section 5 of the 2001 Ordinance preserved the asserted benefit after corporatisation, and whether repeated applications could avoid laches in Article 199 jurisdiction.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · June 4, 2026
Criminal Review Petition No. 89 of 2025 in Criminal Petition No. 467 of 2023
Whether the sentence-only grounds concerning alleged mental incapacity, State-appointed counsel and forensic reports disclosed a patent reviewable error or sufficient mitigation, and whether the 2022 amendment to section 510 Cr.P.C. applied to the pending appeal.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · June 3, 2026
C.P.L.A. No. 4444 of 2023
Whether a worker described as temporary can claim permanent-workman status and its statutory benefits where the actual work is regular, continuous and permanent in nature, and whether a delayed grievance is defeated by limitation.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · May 19, 2026
Criminal Review Petition No. 173 of 2017 in Criminal Petition No. 157 of 2011; Criminal Miscellaneous Appeal No. 9 of 2017
Whether a death convict's in-person review could lawfully be dismissed in chambers without hearing under an administrative Full Court arrangement, whether the resulting order barred a later review, and whether the conviction and death sentence should be maintained.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · May 13, 2026
Civil Petition No. 578-P of 2024
Whether qualifying contractual employees of PICO became regular employees automatically by operation of the deeming proviso substituted in Section 11(1), despite the absence or delay of departmental regularization paperwork.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · May 7, 2026
Criminal Petition No. 1718 of 2022 (against Lahore High Court Criminal Appeal No. 8321 of 2020)
Whether the ocular, medical, and forensic evidence proved the petitioner's guilt for an acid attack beyond reasonable doubt; whether his asserted youth or juvenility justified reducing life imprisonment to the fourteen-year minimum under Section 336-B PPC; and what compensation and survivor-centred measures followed.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · April 16, 2026
F.C.P.L.A. Nos. 384, 385 and 386 of 2026
Whether the Government of Sindh could permit appointment of DG, SEPA by transfer from general administrative cadres without adherence to the technical qualifications and experience prescribed by the Recruitment Rules of 2009.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · April 14, 2026
Civil Petition for Leave to Appeal No. 3204 of 2022
Whether an annual percentage increase in child maintenance is to be calculated on a simple or compound basis when the decree does not expressly specify the method.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · April 9, 2026
Civil Petitions Nos. 2354-L to 2370-L, 2403-L, 2404-L and 2405-L of 2025
Whether uninterrupted contractual service preceding regularization must count as qualifying service for pension and, if so, whether that recognition also backdates regularization or creates seniority, pay-fixation and increment rights for the contract period.
Federal Constitutional Court of Pakistan · March 31, 2026
F.C.P.L.A. Nos. 379, 380, 384 and 389 of 2025
Whether Article 199(1)(c) permits a High Court to enforce Fundamental Rights against a Bar Council, and whether suspending advocates for representing a client or appearing during a strike violates Article 18.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · March 11, 2026
Civil Petitions Nos. 4364 and 4391 of 2024
Whether major disciplinary penalties could stand where disputed signatures were never forensically examined despite the inquiry officer's own recommendation, and what procedural duties governed the departmental inquiry and the Service Tribunal's fact-finding role.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · February 24, 2026
Crl.P.L.A. 248-L of 2016
Whether a clandestine audio or video recording can sustain a criminal case or conviction without dependable proof of lawful procurement, authenticity, integrity, and freedom from tampering, and how privacy protections inform that inquiry.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · February 18, 2026
C.P.L.A. No. 3744 of 2023; C.M.A. No. 6730 of 2024
Whether an executing court in Sindh may use Section 51(e) CPC or its general execution discretion to block a judgment debtor's CNIC as a means of enforcing a money decree.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · December 24, 2025
Criminal Petition No. 209 of 2018; Criminal Petition for Leave to Appeal No. 188-K of 2022
Whether an acquittal at an intermediary stage under Section 249-A or Section 265-K Cr.P.C. carries the same double presumption of innocence as an acquittal after a full-fledged trial.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · July 18, 2025
Criminal Appeal No. 10-K of 2024 (against Sindh High Court order dated 19 November 2024 in H.C.A. No. 484 of 2024)
Whether a court may take cognizance of contempt or fix a date for framing charge under Section 17(3) without first giving the alleged contemner an opportunity of preliminary hearing and forming a prima facie satisfaction that the interest of justice requires further proceedings.
Supreme Courts of Pakistan and India · May 30, 2025
J.Ps. 14 and 17 of 2020 and Cr.Ps. 1322 and 1323 of 2019; Criminal Appeal 1568 of 2013
When does circumstantial evidence form a complete chain sufficient for a murder conviction, and when do defects in implication, confession, recovery, forensic handling, or the accused's statutory examination require benefit of doubt?
Supreme Court of Pakistan · October 24, 2024
Civil Petition No. 524-P of 2015
What constitutional responsibility follows from the continuing loss of forest cover after Article 9A expressly guarantees every person a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment?
Supreme Court of Pakistan · October 15, 2024
Criminal Petition No. 58-K of 2023
Whether the High Court could summarily dismiss a Section 561-A CrPC petition solely because the trial court had taken cognizance, without considering whether the petition disclosed a prima facie abuse of process or another need to secure the ends of justice.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · January 23, 2019
Criminal Appeals Nos. 34-L and 35-L of 2018
Whether the Lahore High Court's acquittal was immune from interference, or whether serious misreading and non-reading of material evidence together with a full reappraisal in revisional jurisdiction rendered the judgment perverse and caused failure of justice.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · January 15, 2015
Criminal Appeal No. 126 of 2012; Criminal Appeal No. 80 of 2001; Criminal Petition No. 568 of 2011 (connected matters)
Whether sections 306, 307 and 308 PPC, and section 311 PPC, are available in a qatl-i-amd case punishable as Ta’zir, and how waiver or compounding differs between Qisas and Ta’zir.
Supreme Court of Pakistan · January 15, 2014
Criminal Review Petitions Nos. 8-L and 10-L of 2013 in Criminal Petition No. 896-L of 2012
What rules govern a successive application for bail, cancellation of bail, or suspension of sentence, particularly where an earlier application was dismissed on merits or withdrawn after arguments on the merits?