Dr. IRSHAD HASAN KHAN vs LAHORE MUNICIPAL CORPORATION and another

This petition for leave to appeal arises out of the concurrent refusal of the lower courts to grant a temporary injunction to the petitioner during the pendency of a civil suit, which order had dismissed the petitioner's civil revision. The core legal question concerns the propriety of interfering with the concurrent exercise of discretionary jurisdiction by the lower courts regarding the grant of interim injunctive relief. The Supreme Court held that the case was not a fit one for interference with the discretionary jurisdiction exercised by the lower courts in refusing a temporary injunction, while observing that the interim orders would not influence the trial. The key principle laid down is that the Supreme Court will generally decline to interfere with concurrent discretionary orders passed by subordinate courts on interlocutory matters like temporary injunctions unless exceptional circumstances are shown.