Taseer’s second family seeks early disposal of case

Petitioners claim matter is being dragged through frivolous suits for last 10 years

LAHORE:

Former Punjab governor Salman Taseer’s family, holding Canadian/British citizenship, approached the Lahore High Court’s overseas cell, requesting for expeditious disposal of their property matter running since 2012.

At which the LHC’s director general (directorate of district judiciary) wrote to district & sessions judge for passing direction to the civil judge concerned to decide this matter within two months.

It is worth mentioning that after the murder of Salman Taseer, his two families started a legal battle over getting property’s possession.

Petitioners Shan Taseer and Sara Taseer (son and daughter of late Salman Taseer reportedly from his second wife) through their application told the LHC overseas cell that their case titled “Suit for cancellation of document and permanent injunction” was pending since 2012 owing to “frivolous tactics of the respondent side who are lingering on the matter one after another pretext”.

They added that “the matter is being dragged through frivolous and vexatious suits for the last 10 years.

Delaying tactics are being used for ulterior motives and nefarious designs in order to deprive the applicants of their valuable rights, whereby captioned suit is moving on a snail’s pace causing irreparable loss and miscarriage of the justice to the applicants”, they added.

“That to the best of knowledge and belief, the so called Oral Gift is a fake, fraudulent, bogus and constitutional transaction which was never executed by late Salman Taseer and has been fabricated by defendants after the death of late Salman Taseer in an attempt to deprive the legal heirs from their lawful inheritance”, they added.

They further implored the oversees cell that under Section 17 of the Registration Act, a deed of Memorandum of Oral Gift was compulsorily registerable. In the absence of a registered deed, no title could be conferred upon the donee which further established the fact that the defendants had indulged in a fraudulent act of forgery for the purpose of misappropriation of the estate of the deceased to oust applicants from inheritance.

“The applicants are overseas Pakistanis and do believe in the courts and judicial system, but this intentional deployment of delaying tactics by defendants are wasting the time of court without any justice and reasonable cause and these are the petitioners who are facing the agonies and miseries of protracted trail apart from financial loss for no fault on their parts,” they said.

The petitioners prayed the LHC’s overseas cell to ensure expeditious disposal of the case and to preempt miscarriage of justice, appropriate direction may graciously be issued to the court to conclude/decide the case as expeditiously as possible, preferably within one month.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 12^th, 2022.