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Ingredients of Valid Gift

  PLJ 2023 Lahore (Note) 108 Present :  Ch. Muhammad Iqbal , J. Mst.  RASOOLAN BIBI--Petitioner versus PROVINCE OF PUNJAB through District Collector--Respondents C.R. No. 24767 of 2017, heard on 12.4.2023. Specific Relief Act, 1877 (I of 1877)-- ----S. 42--Qanun-e-Shahadat Order, 1984, Arts. 17 & 79--Suit for declaration--Dismissal of--Concurrent findings--Entitlement for inheritation--Oral gift mutation by defendants--Depriving of daughters from their inheritance share--Non-compliance of mandatory provisions of law--Neither attesting witnesses of oral gift mutation in question nor Revenue Officers who entered gift mutation were produced in evidence to prove alleged oral gift mutation-- It is mandatory for beneficiary respondents to produce requisite number of witnesses of very oral gift transaction as well as gift mutation--Non-compliance of mandatory provisions of law which is considered fatal for case of respondents--Respondents tried to deprive petitioner from her legal share i
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Proceedings before Wafaqi Mohtasib and President of Pakistan did not constitute Civil Proceedings

  PLJ 1999  Karachi  587 Present:  RAStfEED A.  RAZVI,  J.  SHIFAATULLAH QURESHI-Plaintiff Versus FEDERATION OF  PAKISTAN  through SECRETARY/CHAIRMAN, 'RAILWAYS, MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (RAILWAY BOARD), ISLAMABAD- Defendant  Suit No. 192 of 1992, decided on 20.3.1998.   Limitation Act, 1908-- —-S. 14 Arts. 56 & 115-Limitation~Question of--Plaintiff after dismissal of  his claim for recovery of amount of damage by defendant, instead of filing  suit approached  Wafaqai Mohtasib  who accepting claim of plaintiff  directed defendant to pay amount of damage to plaintiff-President of  Pakistan, on appeal, set aside order of  Wafaqi Mohtasib-Plaintiff  filed  suit for damages and permanent injunction after about 3 years and 10  months from dismissal of his claim by defendants-Plaintiff claimed that  period spent in proceeding before  Wafaqi Mohtasib  should have been  excluded-Held :~Period consumed during proceedings before  Wafaqi  Mohtasib  or before President of Pakistan could not be