A Lahore High Court division bench on Wednesday abolished the requirement that revenue stamps be pasted on petitions filed in the court.
The bench headed by Justice Khalid Mahmood Khan abolished the condition while dismissing a review petition moved by the LHC registrar.
A single bench, ruling on a petition filed by Barrister Javed Iqbal Jaffrey in 2004, had ordered that the requirement be abolished. The registrar’s office had filed a review petition against the order.
Barrister Jaffrey had pleaded that the Supreme Court and the other provincial high courts had already abolished the requirement. He said the revenue generated from the sale of stamps went to the Punjab government, but it provided no service or facility to litigants.
The division bench upheld the decision of the single bench and dismissed the registrar’s review petition.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 27th, 2012.
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