{"id":62428,"date":"2020-03-07T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T04:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=62428"},"modified":"2020-03-06T18:41:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T13:41:19","slug":"ihc-restrains-anti-benami-dg-from-applying-the-benami-law-retroactively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ihc-restrains-anti-benami-dg-from-applying-the-benami-law-retroactively.html","title":{"rendered":"IHC restrains Anti-Benami DG from applying the benami law retroactively"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Islamabad: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has issued an interim order restraining the Anti-Benami Directorate General (DG) from taking action against the properties acquired before the promulgation of the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act, 2017 until next hearing of a writ petition titled SAS (Pvt) Ltd vs Federation of Pakistan \u2013 a news source reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/benami-law-fbr-sends-notices-to-56-properties-in-karachi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Benami Law: FBR sends notices to 56 properties in Karachi (opens in a new tab)\">Benami Law: FBR sends notices to 56 properties in Karachi<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until the next hearing, the DG will not apply retroactively. According to the order, the Federal Board of Revenue\u2019s (FBR) Anti-Benami Directorate General has not been able to satisfy the IHC that the law applies to the properties that were acquired before it was enforced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to sources, laws that do not specifically mention that they will take effect retrospectively are generally presumed to not have been intended for retrospective effects. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/fbr-preparing-for-effective-implementation-of-benami-law.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"FBR preparing for effective implementation of Benami Law (opens in a new tab)\">FBR preparing for effective implementation of Benami Law<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the same time, the IHC has directed the directorate to\nstrictly proceed against the properties that are registered after the\npromulgation of the law. Reportedly, March 10, 2020 has been fixed as the next\ndate for the hearing of the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has issued an interim order restraining the Anti-Benami Directorate General (DG) from taking action against the properties acquired before the promulgation of the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act, 2017 until next hearing of a writ petition titled SAS (Pvt) Ltd vs Federation of Pakistan \u2013 a news source reported. Read: Benami Law: FBR sends notices to 56 properties in Karachi Until the next hearing, the DG will not apply retroactively. According to the order, the Federal Board of Revenue\u2019s (FBR) Anti-Benami Directorate General has not been able to satisfy the IHC that the law applies to the properties that were acquired before it was enforced. According to sources, laws that do not specifically mention that they will take effect retrospectively are generally presumed to not have been intended for retrospective effects. Read: FBR preparing for effective implementation of Benami Law At the same time, the IHC has directed the directorate to strictly proceed against the properties that are registered after the promulgation of the law. Reportedly, March 10, 2020 has been fixed as the next date for the hearing of the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":61403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15015],"tags":[22284],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-62428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-legal-taxation","8":"tag-ihc-restrains-anti-benami-dg-from-applying-the-benami-law-retroactively","9":"cat-15015-id"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>IHC restrains Anti-Benami DG from applying the benami law retroactively - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Islamabad: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has issued an interim order restraining the Anti-Benami Directorate General (DG) from taking action against the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ihc-restrains-anti-benami-dg-from-applying-the-benami-law-retroactively.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"IHC restrains Anti-Benami DG from applying the benami law retroactively - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Islamabad: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has issued an interim order restraining the Anti-Benami Directorate General (DG) from taking action against the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/ihc-restrains-anti-benami-dg-from-applying-the-benami-law-retroactively.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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