Salus Populi Est Suprema Lex
Salus Populi Est Suprema Lex legal meaning, translation and judicial precedents.
Meaning & Judicial Interpretation: (اردو مفہوم اور قانونی تشریح)
Salus populi est suprema lex
:-Applicability.
Applicability.
Salus Populi Est Suprema Lex ......Salus populi est suprema lax" (regard for public welfare is the supreme law).
"Salus populi suprema lex" connotes that interests of public are supreme and that private interests are subordinate to the interests of the State.
Private interests are subordinate to the interests of the State.
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Precedents & Case Laws citing "Salus Populi Est Suprema Lex"
P L D 1979 Lahore 941
Before Aftab Farrukh, J Versus Talc STATE-Respondent
Court:1998 C L C 1585
Department, Civil Secretariat, Lahore and another‑‑‑Appellants Versus Mian MANZOOR AHMAD WATTOO‑‑‑Respondent
Court: Lahore2020 C L C 1279
ABDUL WAJID and 10 others — Petitioners Versus TEHSIL MUNICIPAL ADMINISTRATION and others — Respondents
Court: PeshawarP L D 2003 Supreme Court 74
Khan‑‑‑Petitioner Versus CHIEF EXECUTIVE/PRESIDENT OF PAKISTAN, and another‑‑‑Respondents
Court:2001 M L D 729
and Physical Planning Department, Government of the Punjab, Lahore‑‑‑Petitioner Versus ADDITIONAL COMMISSIONER (REV.) and 6 others ‑‑‑ Respondents
Court: LahoreP L D 1999 Lahore 115
Mian MANZOOR AHMAD WATTOO‑‑‑Petitioner Versus GOVERNOR OF THE PROVINCE OF PUNJAB, LAHORE and another‑‑‑Respondents
Court: ‑‑‑‑Ss. 3(xxvi‑a), 6‑A, 9‑A, 12(2), proviso, 12‑B, 49‑A as added by Punjab Local Government (Amendment) Ordinance (I of 1998)‑‑‑Constitution of Pakistan (1973), Arts. 2A, 4, 25, 32 & 199‑‑‑Constitutional petition ‑‑‑Vires of Punjab Local Government (Amendment) Ordinance, 1998‑‑‑Petitioners in their Constitutional petitions had challenged validity of certain provisions of Punjab Local Government (Amendment) Ordinance, 1998 which had introduced Punchayat System in rural areas and had provided for nomination of members of Panchayats and Union Councils, instead of elected representatives ‑‑‑Validity‑‑ Nomination was a word unknown in realm of elections which could not be countenanced in present progressive times‑‑‑Fate of people could not be subjected to choice of Deputy Commissioner who would nominate members, as choice of people through election was a norm which had been recognised by all civilized societies‑‑‑Nomination which would be made by Government in power, would negate commands of Art.32 of Constitution of Pakistan (1973), whereby State would encourage Local Government institutions composed of elected representatives of the area‑‑‑Amending Ordinance which had introduced Panchayat System and nomination at grass roots, was retrogressive and against commands of Constitution of Pakistan (1973)‑‑‑Every citizen having the right to be equally treated as provided under Arts. 4 & 25 of Constitution of Pakistan (1973) urban population could not be treated differently than rural population and urban population could not be placed at higher footing than rural population‑‑‑Right of vote which had been snatched from rural population by promulgation of Amending Ordinance was discriminatory and could not be sustained‑‑‑Contention that Union Council was redundant in rural areas and that by removal thereof rural population had been brought at par with urban population suffered from in‑built fallacy‑‑‑If a Union Council was surplus, legislative measure should have been taken to remove same rather than to keep it with a different composition and that, too, of nominated members which was highly undemocratic‑‑‑Provision of Punjab Local Government (Amendment) Ordinance, 1998, which had introduced Panchayat System and had provided for nomination of members of Panchayats and Union Councils instead of elected representatives were declared to be ultra vires of Constitution of Pakistan (1973) and were struck down.P L D 2013 Peshawar 38
BILAWAR KHAN — Petitioner Versus AMIR SABAR RAHMAN and others — Respondents
Court: High Court1998 S C M R 1462
Rana MUHAMMAD ARSHAD‑‑‑Petitioner Versus ADDITIONAL COMMISSIONER (REVENUE), MULTAN DIVISION and others‑‑‑Respondents
Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan2010 C L C 1362
MUHAMMAD NAWAZ TAHIR — Petitioner Versus GOVERNMENT OF N.-W.F.P. through Secretary Local Government Department, Peshawar and 3 others — Respondents
Court: PeshawarP L D 2008 Supreme Court 178
TIKA IQBAL MUHAMMAD KHAN and others — Petitioners Versus General PERVEZ MUSHARAF and others — Respondents
Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan