Rule 10 CPC are empowered to add or strike

The criminal courts have been conferred on jurisdiction under the Code of Criminal Procedure quite in line with command contained in Article 175(2) of the Constitution of Islamic Republic of Pakistan, 1973. The criminal courts have been constituted under a law known as the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898. The civil courts on the other hand have been constituted under the Punjab Civil Courts Ordinance (W.P. Ordinance II of 1962) and had been conferred jurisdiction in line with the above quoted Constitutional provisions also. The Code of Civil Procedure regulates the proceedings before the civil courts for the decision of the lis. The civil courts and not the criminal courts, Rule 10 CPC are empowered to add or strike any person as a party in the is before them. The application of the petitioner in absence of any provision of law enabling it to pass such order illegally has been accepted by the trial court.

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2019 LHC 2702

Wp. Illegal Dispossession Act 2005
11067-16