Urban area The Islamabad High Court held that all areas of Islamabad, whether CDA sanctioned or not, would be considered "urban areas" and the Islamabad Rent Restriction Ordinance, 2001 would apply to the entire area. 2024 C L C 274

Urban area
The Islamabad High Court held that all areas of Islamabad, whether CDA sanctioned or not, would be considered "urban areas" and the Islamabad Rent Restriction Ordinance, 2001 would apply to the entire area.
2024 C L C 274

اس مقدمے میں عدالت نے مختلف قانونی نکات پر روشنی ڈالی، جو درج ذیل ہیں:

1. شہری علاقہ کی تعریف

شہری علاقہ ان جگہوں کو کہا جاتا ہے جہاں 50,000 یا اس سے زیادہ آبادی آباد ہو، اور جہاں بنیادی سہولیات، تجارت، اور کمیونٹی خدمات فراہم کی جاتی ہوں۔

2. آئین کی تشریح

آئین ایک زندہ دستاویز ہے جو عوام کی روزمرہ ضروریات اور حقوق کی حفاظت کرتی ہے۔ آئین کا مقصد شہریوں کو قانونی فوائد سے محروم ہونے یا قانونی مشکلات میں مبتلا ہونے سے بچانا ہے۔

3. قوانین کی تشریح

کسی قانون میں "کسی بھی دوسرے قانون کے باوجود" کے الفاظ کا مطلب یہ ہوتا ہے کہ وہ قانون دیگر قوانین پر فوقیت رکھتا ہے، اور کسی بھی تضاد کی صورت میں نافذ العمل ہوگا۔

4. اسلام آباد رینٹ ری اسٹرکشن آرڈیننس، 2001

شہری علاقہ کی وضاحت: عدالت نے قرار دیا کہ آرڈیننس کے تحت شہری علاقہ کی تعریف واضح نہیں تھی۔ وفاقی حکومت کے جاری کردہ نوٹیفیکیشنز میں اصول یا معیار بیان نہیں کیا گیا کہ کون سے علاقے شامل یا خارج کیے جائیں گے۔

عدالت نے اسلام آباد کی تمام حدود کو شہری علاقہ قرار دیا اور ہدایت دی کہ وفاقی حکومت اس حوالے سے نوٹیفیکیشن جاری کرے تاکہ تمام علاقوں پر آرڈیننس کا اطلاق ہو سکے، چاہے وہ علاقے سی ڈی اے سے منظور شدہ ہوں یا نہ ہوں۔

5. سفارتی انکلیو کا دائرہ کار

عدالت نے یہ قرار دیا کہ سفارتی انکلیو میں نجی افراد کے درمیان کرایہ داری کے تعلقات اسلام آباد رینٹ ری اسٹرکشن آرڈیننس، 2001 کے دائرہ کار سے خارج نہیں کیے جا سکتے۔

یہ فیصلہ نہ صرف قانونی تعریفوں کو واضح کرتا ہے بلکہ شہریوں کے حقوق کی حفاظت کے لیے آئینی اور قانونی دائرہ کار کو بھی مضبوط کرتا ہے۔

2024 C L C 274

[Islamabad]

Before Mohsin Akhtar Kayani, J

MUHAMMAD SHAHBAZ----Petitioner

Versus

DISTRICT AND SESSIONS JUDGE (EAST), ISLAMABAD and 7 others----Respondents

Writ Petition No.1154 of 2019, decided on 12th January, 2023.

(a) Words and phrases---

----'Urban area'---Definition---Urban area ordinarily means city or town based upon buildings, metropolitan areas, where population beyond 50,000 or more was settled for on account of provision, trade and community services were provided in the area---Such are the features of urban concept generally and widely used in common parlance.

Chairman, Pakistan Railway, Government of Pakistan, Islamabad and others v. Shah Jehan Shah PLD 2016 SC 534; Blacks Law Dictionary (11th Edition) Bryan A. Garner; Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary (9th Edition); Chamber Dictionary (10th Edition) and Wolters Kluwer Bouvier Law Dictionary (Desk Edition Volume-2 by Stephen Michael Sheppared rel.

(b) Interpretation of Constitution---

----Object, purpose and scope---Constitution is an organic document, which covers day to day affairs and needs of the people in the framework of Principles of Policy enshrined in the Constitution---Constitution provides due protection to citizen of Pakistan while considering legitimate needs, so they should not be exposed or harmed or be placed under legal hardships qua their legal rights by not extending benefits of law.

----Expression "notwithstanding anything contained in any other law"---Applicability---Expression "notwithstanding anything contained in any other law" indicates that the provision should prevail despite anything contrary to any provision and would prevail over other clause as well as the laws in case of any inconsistency.

E.F.U General Insurance Company Ltd. v. Federation of Pakistan PLD 1997 SC 700 and Hakim Ali Zardari v. The State PLD 2002 Kar. 374 rel.

(d) Islamabad Rent Restriction Ordinance (IV of 2001)---

----Ss.1(2) & 2(k)---Notification SRO 83(K)/2012, dated 01-08-2002---Ejectment of tenant---Urban area---Scope---Petitioner was owner of immovable property which was not notified as urban area for the purposes of Islamabad Rent Restriction Ordinance, 2001---Validity---Term "urban area" under S.2(k) of Islamabad Rent Restriction Ordinance, 2001, was silent about any character, principle, or explanation to understand which areas were called urban area with reference to Islamabad Rent Restriction Ordinance, 2001---Term "urban area" was dependent upon notification of Federal Government in Official Gazette without any parameters on which Federal Government could select area, though through the previous two SROs notified by Federal Government under the said provision, those areas were included, which were duly recognized under Capital Development Authority Ordinance, 1960, which was not the mandate of law in Islamabad Rent Restriction Ordinance, 2001---Such technical defect had never been explained on any yardstick, as to how and on what parameters, Federal Government could choose and select the area in such disputed position---Doctrine of "pith and substance" as well as doctrine of "incidental encroachments and occupied field" came into play, though in such case, there was no other competitive legislation which effected Islamabad Rent Restriction Ordinance, 2001, directly, but the mode and manner in which Federal Government was exercising its authority by denying application of Islamabad Rent Restriction Ordinance, 2001, in Islamabad Capital Territory areas should have been settled in the light of Preamble of Islamabad Rent Restriction Ordinance, 2001, however, more population of Islamabad Capital Territory had been excluded to get benefit of Islamabad Rent Restriction Ordinance, 2001---High Court was bound to consider the legislative intent of the parliament by examining Preamble to understand real spirit and domain as well as occupied field of Islamabad Rent Restriction Ordinance, 2001, which only had given simple and straight meaning to resolve the issues between landlord and tenant without any discrimination of properties recognized by Capital Development Authority or not recognized by Capital Development Authority---High Court declared not only the area of petitioner as "urban area" under S.2(k) of Islamabad Rent Restriction Ordinance, 2001, rather included entire Islamabad Capital Territory notwithstanding registered, approved or unapproved society of CDA or any other area acquired or non-acquired or even constructed in any part of ICT beyond the zoning limit, whereby any land or house which had been rented out to a tenant by a landlord was required to be regulated through Rent Controller in terms of Islamabad Rent Restriction Ordinance, 2001, without any discrimination---High Court directed Federal Government to issue necessary notification accordingly for application of Islamabad Rent Restriction Ordinance, 2001, in the entire Islamabad Capital Territory, though the same was ministerial work, especially when there was no criteria for exclusion or inclusion of particular territory in the notification---Constitutional petition was allowed accordingly.

Privatization Commission v. Aftab Hussain PLD 2022 SC 267; State Bank of Pakistan v. Federation of Pakistan PLD 2022 Pesh. 46; (Human Rights Case No.69229-P of 2018) PLD 2019 SC 297; Mustafa Impex, Karachi v. The Government of Pakistan through Secretary, Finance, Islamabad PLD 2016 SC 808; Malik Munsif Awan, Advocate, Chairman, Pakistan Justice Party, Lahore v. Federation of Pakistan through Secretary, Law and Justice, Islamabad and others PLD 2021 SC 379; Tariq Aziz-ud-Din and others in re Human Rights case 2010 SCMR 1301; Abdul Wahab and another v. Secretary, Government of Balochistan and another 2009 SCMR 1354; Mehram Ali v. Federation of Pakistan PLD 1998 SC 1445; Moazzam Habib and others v. Federation of Pakistan and others 2018 YLR 222 and Saleem Ullah Khan v. Federation of Pakistan through Ministry of Interior and Narcotics Control, Interior Division, Islamabad 2017 YLR 1224 ref.

(e) Islamabad Rent Restriction Ordinance (IV of 2001)---

----S.17---Diplomatic enclave---Rent Controller, jurisdiction of---Scope---Relationship of landlord and tenant in Diplomatic Enclave between private individuals could not be considered excluded from legal cover of Islamabad Rent Restriction Ordinance, 2001.

Petitioner in person.

Usman Rasool Ghuman, A.A.G., Muhammad Nasim Saqlain, A.A.G., Ms. Khadija Ali, State Counsel and Ch. Muhammad Asif Khan for Respondents.

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