IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PAKISTAN 
(APPELLATE JURISDICTION) 
 
 
PRESENT: 
MR. JUSTICE TASSADUQ HUSSAIN JILLANI, HCJ 
MR. JUSTICE KHILJI ARIF HUSSAIN 
MR. JUSTICE SH. AZMAT SAEED 
 
C.M.A. NO. 4581 OF 2013 IN  
C.M.A. NO. 3470 OF 2013 IN 
CIVIL APPEAL NO. 409 OF 2010 
(Fake degree case) 
 
Application by Muhammad Younis against Arif Mehmood, MPA 
 
 
In Attendance: 
 
Raja Amir Abbas, ASC a/w applicant 
Mr. Hamid Khan, Sr. ASC a/w respondent Arif 
Mehmood 
 
For HEC 
Mian Muhammad Hanif, ASC 
Raja Abdul Ghafoor, AOR 
 
For BISE, Faisalabad 
Mr. Fida Hussain Shah, Assistant Controller (Record)  
Mr. Abdul Rehman, Assistant (Record Branch) 
Mr. Muhammad Arshad, Junior Clerk (Legal Section) 
Ch. Akhtar Ali, AOR 
 
Date of Hearing:  
09.04.2014 
 
ORDER 
 
 
 
TASSADUQ HUSSAIN JILLANI, CJ.- We have heard learned 
counsel for the applicant and respondent Arif Mehmood and have also perused 
the record produced by the Assistant Controller (Record) of the Board of 
Intermediate and Secondary Education, Faisalabad.  
2. 
 
Applicant’s learned counsel read out the detailed statement of 
Assistant Controller (Record) of the Board of Intermediate & Secondary 
Education, Faisalabad dated 22.4.2013, according to whom, the FA certificate 
of the respondent was fake because on the date of FA examination, the 
respondent Arif Mehmood purportedly appeared at two centers i.e. at one as a 
private candidate and at the other as a regular candidate. The admission form 
as a private candidate bears pink colour whereas the admission form of regular 
students is yellowish white.  
3. 
 
Learned counsel for the respondent submitted that the only 
evidence against the respondent is the statement of Mr. Fida Hussain, 
Assistant Controller (Record) whereas a close look at the admission forms 
would indicate that in the pink form (private admission form) his metric roll 
number is correctly written as 11592 and his name also has been correctly 
written as Arif Mehmood. However, in the yellowish white admission form 
(regular admission form) the matriculation roll number is incorrectly written as 
18592 and even the name has not been correctly written i.e. Arif Mehmood Gill. 
Adds that in the degree of Bachelor of Arts of respondent regarding which there 
is no dispute, his name is written as Arif Mehmood. He lastly submitted that in 
2003 pursuant to the direction issued by the learned Lahore High Court in a 
petition filed by some other objector, a detailed inquiry was carried out by the 
Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education and the FA degree of the 
respondent was found to be genuine.  
4. 
 
We have examined the record to which reference has been made by 
learned counsel for the respondent with the assistance of Board official and 
find that the submissions made by respondent’s learned counsel prima facie 
are not without substance. But in these proceedings no conclusive finding can 
be given. If applicant still wishes to challenge the authenticity of the FA degree 
of the respondent, he may take recourse to other remedy, if available under the 
law.  
5. 
 
In the afore-referred circumstances, the suo moto notice issued to 
the respondent as also the order of suspension of his membership from 
Provincial Assembly seat dated 25.9.2013 is withdrawn. This CMA is disposed 
of in terms noted above. 
 
 
CHIEF JUSTICE 
 
JUDGE 
 
 
 
JUDGE 
Islamabad, the 
9th of April, 2014 
Not Approved For Reporting 
Khurram 
 
