PESHAWAR: The Peshawar Excessive Courtroom (PHC) has mentioned that the provincial authorities ought to amend the provincial ombudsman regulation to guard the rights of girls in inheritance and disputed properties.
A bench consisting of Justice Syed Arshad issued a choice on the writ petitions moved by two girls pertaining to the deprivation of equal share in inheritance and the sealing of disputed properties.
The TLTP learnt that the court docket regretted that regardless of being an Islamic nation, girls had been being disadvantaged of inheritance, including that it was necessary that the provincial authorities took steps to allay the grievances and amend the present legal guidelines on this regard.
Subsequently, the court docket referred the matter to the regulation division for crucial steps on this regard.
Through the listening to, the lawyer of the petitioner, Ghulam Mohiuddin Malik, informed the court docket that the provincial authorities enacted a regulation in 2019 referred to as the Enforcement of Girls’s Property Rights Act, 2019, underneath which the provincial ombudsman has been empowered to promote such disputed land or property during which girls, particularly widows, have been disadvantaged of a share within the inheritance.
Nevertheless, he mentioned that the choice posed a menace of violation of the fundamental rights of the events as in some circumstances the disputed property is the one supply of revenue for a household.
He additional knowledgeable the court docket that within the case at hand, the provincial ombudsman issued a choice on June 18 2021 during which the disputed property was ordered to be sealed.
After the completion of the arguments, the bench declared that the mentioned act didn’t prescribe a transparent process relating to the share and distribution of the disputed inheritance.
The choice famous that the regulation of the provincial ombudsman was silent on sure authorized issues.
Subsequently, the court docket despatched the matter to the regulation and justice division with directions to take acceptable steps on this regard.