"LEGALITY" · 총 37건
필터 보기현재 지수
49.5
0 = 부정 우세
50 = 중립
100 = 긍정 우세
최근 7일 기준 85,778건을 분석한 결과, 뉴스 심리지수는 49.5(균형)입니다. 긍정 10,515건(12.3%)·중립 62,118건(72.4%)·부정 13,145건(15.3%)이며, 중립 비중이 뚜렷하게 높습니다. 성향 지수는 종합 19.7(중도 균형)입니다.
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LAHORE: A special committee of the Punjab Assembly tasked with examining the Lahore Gymkhana Club’s lease of state land is yet to submit its report, around 20 months after it was given two months to do so, and has not met since its first and only sitting. Special Committee No. 6 was set up in September 2024 under the Rule 187 of the Assembly’s rules of procedure after MPA Amjad Ali Javed moved an adjournment motion over the club’s affairs. Headed by MPA Samiullah Khan, the committee was given a nine-point mandate and asked to report to the House within two months. Under its terms of reference, the committee was to examine the legality of the lease, the club’s compliance with a 2023 rent policy, the construction of unauthorised structures, the financial loss to the exchequer and its recovery, the club’s exclusive use of public land in Bagh-e-Jinnah, and its membership criteria. The committee held its only meeting on Sept 30, 2024, the first sitting of an Assembly committee to be opened to the public and telecasted live. It directed the Board of Revenue (BoR) senior member to appear in person with the land record and a market valuation, and asked the law department to advise on the legality of the lease and the options available to protect the public interest. The agriculture department, the deputy commissioner and the director general of audit were also asked to attend. The minutes show the next meeting was to be held “in due course”, but no further sitting has taken place. The committee set up in Sept 2024 has met only once and was given two months to submit its findings Samiullah Khan tells Dawn that he plans to convene a meeting this week during the assembly session and take the issue to its logical end. However, any decision of the committee, he stresses, would be in the ‘larger public interest’. He did not say why the issue lingered on for 20 months, though the committee had been tasked to settle the matter within two months. Documents available with Dawn show a wide gap between the value of the land and the rent the club pays. A valuation report prepared by the BoR puts the market value of the commercial land along The Mall, Jail Road and Zafar Ali Road at up to Rs200 million per kanal. For the nearly 1,091 kanals (about 112 acres) in the club’s possession, that places the value of the land at around Rs218 billion. The club pays Rs5,000 a year in rent under a lease signed in 1996 and valid till 2050. The amount works out to about Rs417 a month, or 38 paisas per kanal per year. According to the valuation report, the club is also in possession of three kanals and 16 marlas more than the record of rights shows in its name. The committee was further informed that the club holds a 3.5-acre cricket ground inside Bagh-e-Jinnah, owned by the agriculture department, for which no lease exists. The law department, in its opinion placed before the committee, held that Clause 6 of the 1996 lease allowed the government to terminate the lease at any time on a six-month notice, and that under Clause 8 no compensation was payable to the club for any structure built on the land. The BoR stated that the government was bound to resume the land for a public purpose or on a breach of the lease, and that it had no record of approval for the permanent structures raised by the club. In its written reply, the club stated that its buildings, including a clubhouse, golf clubhouse, swimming pool, guest blocks, a mosque and a café, had been constructed after the lease. It listed grants received from successive governments but maintained that no public money was being spent on it. It also declined to provide its list of members, calling it confidential. Under the club’s rules, civil servants of grade 18 and above and commissioned officers of the armed forces are entitled to membership against a token fee. Earlier, the club had refused to share details of its lease and donors sought under the right to information law, arguing before the Lahore High Court that it was not a “public body”. The court dismissed the plea in January 2023, observing that the land was part of the resources of the state and that a rent of Rs5,000 a year “cannot be even termed as any rate whatsoever”. The arrangement is not confined to Lahore. A policy approved by the caretaker provincial government and notified by the Colonies Department on May 10, 2023 allowed the grant of state land to gymkhana clubs across Punjab at 10 per cent of the market rent. According to the BoR, the rent being charged ranges from Rs20,000 an acre a year at clubs in Mandi Bahauddin and Chiniot to Rs140,000 at Jhelum and Gujranwala city. The board, however, has taken the position that the 2023 policy does not apply to the Lahore Gymkhana as its lease is older. The issue has resurfaced days after the Indian government ordered the Delhi Gymkhana Club, founded like its Lahore counterpart in 1913, to vacate the 27.3 acres of leased land by June 5 by invoking a clause in its lease for a public purpose. Published in Dawn, June 8th, 2026
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Can the search for a hotel room lead to a business idea? It did, for Alok Mishra.In 2014, during a trip with his wife, Mishra needed a hotel room for six hours as he did not want to drive late at night. But he was asked to pay for a full day and subjected to a series of intrusive questions despite being married—and was finally refused a room. “That got me thinking that there might be travellers like me who need rooms only for a few hours but have to pay for an entire day. Later, while working in the US, I came across pay-for-use concepts and felt that India needed a more flexible, customer-friendly model,” he says.That experience led to the launch of Bag2Bag in 2019, an online platform for booking hotels, service apartments, homestays and other accommodations, with a focus on hourly stays.The business started gaining momentum around 2021. Bag2Bag’s hourly-stay revenue has risen from roughly Rs 50 lakh in 2021 to Rs 5-6 crore today. The company has served more than 1 lakh customers, lists over 10,000 properties across India and offers hourly stays at 6,000-7,000 of them. The service is available in more than 50 cities, though Bengaluru and Mumbai remain its strongest markets.Also read | The safe keepers: Inside India's booming locker economy“People now understand that this is a practical solution rather than a niche service. One of our biggest achievements has been to help normalise the category. Earlier, hourly stays were often associated with couples seeking privacy,” he says. “We deliberately broadened the use case by allowing family bookings, including travellers with children. We wanted people to see hourly stays for what they really are— a convenient accommodation option.”HOUR OF NEED That convenience is growing as online hotel booking platforms that allow short stays are on the rise. Alongside Bag2Bag, there is Noida-based Brevistay, Bengaluruheadquartered MiStay, Mumbai’s Hourly Rooms and Qwiksta, all specialising in micro stays. Larger travel platforms like MakeMyTrip, Agoda and Goibibo have also introduced hourly booking options.Like Bag2Bag, Brevistay was born out of a travel inconvenience. In 2016, cofounders Prateek Singh, Aditya Naithani, Shubham Agarwal, Avnish Kumar and Nikhil Pathak arrived in Manali at 5 am only to find that hotels would not allow early check-ins without charging for an extra night. The friends went on to cofound the travel tech startup Brevistay, which raised Rs 3 crore in 2023 and today reports revenue of about Rs 18 crore. It has 15 lakh registered users, 4 lakh monthly active users and around 11,000 listed hotels, including brands such as Ginger, Ramada and Blue Motel.LONG JOURNEY Getting there, however, was not easy.Pathak, cofounder and chief technology officer of Brevistay, says, “The challenge in this segment is not customers but hotels. In 2016, many hoteliers would simply bang the phone on us. Some agreed in principle but didn’t want their properties listed publicly and preferred bookings to come through offline calls. It took us nearly two years before we started seeing meaningful traction and recurring bookings,” says Pathak.The same resistance greeted MiStay when it launched in 2016. Starting with a pilot in Delhi, MiStay has since expanded to more than 100 cities. Shwetha Sameernath, general manager, business and growth, MiStay, says, “When we launched, scepticism was high. Most hotels were uncomfortable with the model, concerned about guest quality and operational challenges. Over time, that changed as hotels began seeing it as a revenue opportunity.”MiStay tackled resistance through education and curation. The company worked to show hoteliers that short stays served a broad and legitimate market of business travellers, transit passengers and day-use guests. It also selectively onboarded premium hotel brands, helping build credibility for the category. “When hotels see actual customer segments across varied, legitimate use cases, it builds their confidence that the model won’t compromise their brand,” says Sameernath, adding that the concept is now largely normalised.Also read | Major change in buyer behaviour as e-scooters race deeper into BharatPathak says the customer has evolved as well. Brevistay continues to market actively to couples, but he argues that the category should no longer be viewed through that lens. “There’s nothing illegal happening. In fact, there’s no law that prevents consenting adults from booking a hotel room. The issue was perception, not legality. What eventually changed minds was revenue,” he says. “Once hotels realised they could sell the same room multiple times in a day and generate seven or eight bookings instead of one, the business case became impossible to ignore.”The use cases have expanded too. Back in 2017, couples accounted for nearly 90% of Brevistay’s bookings. Today, that figure is down to 50-60%. Business travellers, transit passengers, tourists looking to freshen up between journeys, students travelling for exams and people attending interviews or meetings have all emerged as important customer segments.Hotels, meanwhile, have had to adapt operationally. Mishra says the biggest challenge is that traditional hotel system was never designed for flexible check-ins and check-outs. Bag2Bag addressed this by developing its own software platform for partner hotels. “Once they realised they could monetise idle inventory and generate additional revenue from rooms that would otherwise remain empty, adoption became much easier,” he says.REVENUE CHECKS IN For Sameernath, the turning point was the entry of premium hotel brands. “Today, acceptance has grown across the ecosystem. Channel managers and property management systems are evolving to support slot-based bookings, and customers increasingly treat hourly booking as the natural way to reserve a room for less than a day,” she says.Also read | Indian tourists go viral for all wrong reasons. Here's how not to become the next horror storyMishra has observed another interesting shift. Reliability and brand trust are becoming increasingly important. “Whether it’s a three-star or a five-star property, even if a branded hotel costs 20-25% more, customers prefer it because they know what they’re getting,” he says. The economics are compelling for hotels too. Sameernath points out that average hotel occupancy in India is under 65%, while daytime occupancy can fall to as low as 30% as guests check out in the morning and new arrivals come in much later. Platforms like MiStay help hotels monetise those idle hours by attracting guests who would never have booked a full-day room. “For hotels near airports or railway stations, the upside is even greater. A room priced at Rs 8,000 for a full night could earn Rs 3,500-4,000 for a daytime slot and another Rs 6,000 for the night—generating `10,000-plus from the same room in a single day,” she says.CHANGING PERCEPTION MiStay today works with brands like IHG, Pride, Ramada, The Park, Radisson and Novotel IHG, while Brevistay is in discussions with Hyatt. Sameernath says that on the demand side, once customers experience flexible booking, they don’t go back. Their repeat rate reflects this, as 48% of MiStay’s monthly business comes from repeat guests “The pay-per-use model in hospitality is the same transformation that happened in transport. You no longer book a cab for a full day; you pay for the distance. Hotels are heading the same way,” she says.Pathak believes the next wave of growth will be driven by younger travellers. “They’re vocal about spending time with their partners and don’t carry the hesitation earlier generations did. In metros, the industry has largely moved beyond the old perceptions, and hourly stays are increasingly viewed as a convenience product rather than something unusual.”The customer, it seems, has reached the destination. The hospitality industry needs to arrive.ChallengesPersistent social stigmaTrust and safety concernsBranded hotels worried about perceptionComplexities in managing multiple check-ins and check-outsLack of awareness among travellersOpportunitiesRise in domestic travel and frequent short tripsGrowth of bleisure (business + leisure) travelYounger consumers demanding flexibilityTech platforms making discovery and booking seamlessHotels looking to monetise vacant rooms
MANILA, Philippines — Senate President Pro Tempore Loren Legarda on Saturday questioned the legality of recent leadership changes in the Senate, arguing that the appointment of key Senate officers and committee chairpersons violated the Constitution and the chamber’s rules because only 12 senators were present to vote. In a statement, Legarda said the 1987 Constitution
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A high school teacher on Friday asked the Supreme Court to affirm the legality of the Senate’s June 3 session, when senators in attendance were able to establish a quorum and reorganize the chamber after two days of absence by the majority. Meanwhile, former leaders of the upper chamber—two of them still incumbent senators—issued a
QUETTA: The Balochistan High Court on Friday suspended the implementation of a first information report (FIR) registered against Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Mehmood Khan Achakzai, while admitting his constitutional petition for regular hearing. A BHC division bench, headed by Chief Justice Muhammad Kamran Mullahkhail, heard the petition challenging the FIR lodged against Mr Achakzai by police in Qila Abdullah district. Following preliminary arguments, the court ordered the suspension of the FIR’s implementation and issued notices to the provincial government and other respondents for the next hearing. A team of senior lawyers, including Muhammad Riaz Ahmed, Senator Kamran Murtaza, Advocate Habibullah Nasar, Ayaz Mandokhail, Rahib Buledi and others, represented Mr Achakzai, who is also Chairman of the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party, before the court. The FIR was registered at Gulistan Police Station in Qila Abdullah district, accusing Mr Achakzai of allegedly spreading hatred against a state institution and criticising the current government during a public gathering. Several other political leaders were also named in the case. According to the FIR, the charges stem from a speech allegedly containing harsh, insulting and provocative remarks against a state institution. Authorities further alleged that the speech incited the public and promoted hatred. The petition challenges the legality of the FIR and seeks judicial relief against the criminal proceedings. With the court’s interim order, any action based on the FIR will remain suspended until further proceedings. The case is expected to be taken up again on the next date of hearing after responses are submitted by government authorities concerned. Published in Dawn, June 6th, 2026
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MANILA, Philippines — Former Senate President Franklin Drilon said on Thursday that the Supreme Court’s (SC) intervention is needed to settle the Senate leadership row, as the high court has the power to question the legality of the leadership reorganization. He made the statement when asked if there was another way to settle the issue
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MANILA, Philippines — Former Senate President Franklin Drilon on Tuesday urged the Supreme Court to rule “as early as possible” on the legality of unprogrammed appropriations (UAs), saying a decision would provide crucial guidance before Congress begins deliberations on the proposed 2027 national budget. Drilon made the appeal during the third day of oral arguments
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has upheld a sentence awarded to a child rapist and a murderer, ruling that individuals who voluntarily become intoxicated cannot claim exemption from criminal liability. “Intoxication caused by one’s own negligence or recklessness does not excuse the offence,” affirmed Justice Muhammad Hashim Khan Kakar in a three-page verdict he authored. The court ruling has put to rest the defence advanced by appellant Sunni Masih, who during the trial had taken a specific plea recorded under Section 164 CrPC that he committed the offence under intoxication. Earlier, the SC had entertained the plea to determine whether a person could be awarded capital punishment if he commits a crime under intoxication. Intoxication does not absolve offender of liability for an offence committed under the influence, court rules A three-judge SC bench, headed by Justice Kakar and also comprising Justice Salahuddin Panhwar and Justice Ishtiaq Ibrahim, had taken up an appeal of Sunni Masih against a Feb 28, 2018, order of the Balochistan High Court regarding confirmation of capital punishment for brutally killing a five-year-old girl, Angel Kumari, in Sibi (Balochistan). Sunni Masih was booked at the Police Station City, Sibi, for raping and killing the girl in January 2014. He was sentenced to death by the trial court under sections 302(b) (murder), 364-A (kidnapping), and 376 (rape) of the Pakistan Penal Code. His appeal was subsequently rejected by the BHC’s Sibi bench, prompting the present appeal to the SC. At the hearing before the apex court, the appellant’s counsel did not challenge the merits of the conviction, but sought reduction of the death sentence to life imprisonment, arguing that the case rested solely on the appellant’s judicial confession that the offence had been committed under the influence of intoxication. Justice Kakar noted that the perusal of the record showed that the child was killed after being raped in a cruel manner and after a detailed assessment of the evidence available on record, both the courts below had concurred in their conclusion regarding the guilt of the appellant having been established beyond reasonable doubt. “Upon our own independent evaluation of the evidence we have not been able to take any legitimate exception to the conclusions concurrently reached by the courts below,” he observed. “A man who gets drunk voluntarily has no right to claim exemption from criminal liability,” he remarked. While dismissing the appeal, the SC unanimously held that the impugned judgement was free from any illegality or infirmity, besides there was no misreading or non-reading of evidence. Therefore, the high court judgement did not require any interference by the SC. Published in Dawn, June 3rd, 2026
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