ISLAMABAD: On the request of lawyer normal’s Workplace, Sindh Excessive Courtroom (SHC) has fastened over 500 pending instances associated to vitality disputes for listening to, based on a supply.
Two totally different benches of the SHC will start on Tuesday the listening to of a number of appeals and civil fits regarding fuel tariff, petroleum levy, Liquefied Fuel Worth (LPG) and Fuel Infrastructure Development Cess (GIDC), and many others.
Round 358 appeals, together with these instituted by the federal government, have been pending earlier than a SHC division bench comprising Justices Naimutullah Phulpoto and Zulfikar Ali Sangi, the supply advised Daybreak.
Round 150 civil fits filed by totally different litigants have been fastened earlier than the single-judge bench of Justice Mahmood Ahmed Khan.
Over 500 appeals, civil fits to be heard at this time
A supply aware about the event advised Daybreak that on April 2, the lawyer normal for Pakistan’s (AGP) secretary wrote to the SHC registrar requesting early fixing and disposal of instances associated to vitality disputes.
It wasn’t clear underneath which legislation the AGP’s workplace requested the SHC chief justice to repair the instances, the supply added.
The letter reminded the SHC registrar that numerous instances pertaining to the fuel tariff, GIDC, petroleum levy, Fuel Growth Surcharge (GDS) on LPG, and fuel value notification have been pending within the court docket.
The letter additionally highlighted that in view of the prevailing financial circumstances, these instances should be determined expeditiously, the supply mentioned.
After the letter, the matter of pending litigation was positioned earlier than the SHC chief justice. Subsequently, the instances have been fastened for Might 6 however later adjourned until Might 21.
Earlier, the AGP workplace wrote a letter to the Federal Board of Income’s (FBR) chairman, highlighting the deficiencies within the physique’s authorized division that resulted in a pile-up of keep orders towards tax restoration earlier than superior courts.
The letter to the FBR head was written after Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s directive to expedite the listening to of tax issues, because the delay has stalled the restoration of Rs2 trillion in income.
Within the letter dated Might 2, the AGP workplace mentioned FBR’s authorized groups have been mishandling and mismanaging instances referring to income issues on mere technicalities, inflicting big income losses to the nationwide exchequer.
The letter had regretted that when income issues are determined towards the FBR on the stage of appellate tribunals, the bureau’s authorized workforce don’t promptly file overview functions towards the selections in courts.
Printed in Daybreak, Might twenty first, 2024