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Judgments on Qanun-e-Shahadat Order 1984 (2025)
Pakistani court judgments that consider Qanun-e-Shahadat Order 1984, summarised in plain English, newest first. Each gives the issue, what the court held and what it means in practice, and is reviewed by an advocate.
2 judgments
A property transfer soon after marriage, with no sign of payment, can discharge dower
Tanveer Ahmed v. District Judge, Rahim Yar Khan, etc.
Issue: Was four marlas of land, mutated to the wife as an 'oral sale' from her father-in-law within a month of the marriage,…
Held: Payment of dower. The husband bought the land from his father and had it mutated directly to his wife within a month of the marriage, with no consideration from her; she admitted in cross-examination that her husband had transferred the…
Art. 129, Qanun-e-Shahadat Order 1984Art. 199, Constitution of Pakistan 1973
Full dower once Nikah and consummation are proved; a house’s value is assessed at today’s market price
Benish Ghaffar v. Additional District Judge and 2 others (with connected petitions)
Issue: Where a husband denied the marriage altogether but the registered Nikah was proved, could the courts below award only half the dower…
Held: No. Once the Nikah was proved through the Nikah Khawan and the Union Council Secretary and the husband's denial failed, consummation was a private matter that needed no further proof, no issue had been framed on it, and the later…
Art. 128, Qanun-e-Shahadat Order 1984Art. 199, Constitution of Pakistan 1973