Ghulam Nabi V. Mir Muhammad Ali Rind,
PLJ 2020 Quetta 53 (DB) · Balochistan High Court
This case involved a defamation lawsuit where Mir Muhammad Ali Rind sued Ghulam Nabi for 250 million rupees in damages, claiming Ghulam Nabi had falsely accused him of corruption and running terrorist camps. After a lengthy and complicated procedural history, including an earlier dismissal and remand of the case, the trial court eventually proceeded against Ghulam Nabi without his presence and decided the case in the respondent's favor, awarding an ex-parte decree in December 2012.
Ghulam Nabi later found out about this decree when execution proceedings began against him and applied to have it set aside, arguing he was never properly notified of the court dates. The trial court rejected his request, but he appealed to the Balochistan High Court.
The High Court found serious problems with how Ghulam Nabi was notified. Court rules require that if someone cannot be personally served with notice, it must be affixed to their home or business, and only after that fails should notice be published in a newspaper. Here, the trial court skipped the affixation step entirely and relied on a newspaper publication that was for a different hearing date than the one on which Ghulam Nabi was actually declared absent and proceeded against. The High Court called this a grave illegality and ruled that the time limit for challenging the decree should be counted from when Ghulam Nabi actually learned about it, not from the decree's original date. Emphasizing that cases should be decided on their merits rather than technical procedural grounds, the court allowed the appeal, effectively giving Ghulam N
یہ مقدمہ ہتکِ عزت کے ایک دعوے سے متعلق تھا جس میں میر محمد علی رند نے غلام نبی پر 25 کروڑ روپے ہرجانے کا دعویٰ دائر کیا، اور الزام لگایا کہ غلام نبی نے جھوٹے طور پر ان پر بدعنوانی اور دہشت گردی کے کیمپ چلانے کا الزام عائد کیا تھا۔ ایک طویل اور پیچیدہ عدالتی کارروائی کے بعد، جس میں مقدمے کا ابتدائی خارج ہونا اور پھر واپس بھجوایا جانا شامل تھا، ٹرائل کورٹ نے بالآخر غلام نبی کی عدم موجودگی میں مقدمے کی کارروائی جاری رکھی اور مدعی کے حق میں فیصلہ دیتے ہوئے دسمبر 2012 میں یک طرفہ ڈگری جاری کر دی۔
غلام نبی کو اس ڈگری کا علم اس وقت ہوا جب ان کے خلاف عملدرآمد کی کارروائی شروع کی گئی، جس پر انہوں نے ڈگری کو کالع