Citation Name :
2000 SCMR 1615
SUPREME-COURT
Side Appellant :
MUHAMMAD JAVED
Side Opponent :
OFFICER INCHARGE; MARKET COMMITTEE, GOVERNMENT OF SINDH, KARACHI
Ss. 7 & 14—Constitution of
Pakistan (1973), Arts. 185(3) & 199–Establishment of the of fice of
Ombudsman for the Province of Sindh Act (I of 1992), S. 9-Reference to
Ombudsman by Supreme Court —Allegation of maladministration of Market
Committee constituted under S.7, Agricultural Produce Markets Act, 1939–
-Market
Committee although a creature of the Provincial Government but occupied
the status of the body corporate under S.14 of the same Act—Petition
for leave to appeal to Supreme Court –
Maintainability—Held
,
neither Supreme Court nor the High Court , in the ordinary course of
things, could supervise or control , an essentially administrative
matter—Corrective machinery in that behalf lay elsewhere and one of
those levels, and a substantially High one, was that of
Ombudsman–Supreme Court after hearing the matter at some length and upon
issuance of necessary notices concluded that in addition to the general
and Suo motu jurisdiction of the Ombudsman, which would continue to
vest with him in respect of whatever Supreme Court would observe,
certain related questions were framed by the Supreme Court and were
referred to the Ombudsman accordingly–
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