A miscellaneous petition has been filed within the Lahore Excessive Court docket (LHC) looking for suspension of the enforcement of the Kite Flying Act 2025 and a declaration that the regulation is unconstitutional.
The petition was moved by Sheikh Imtiaz Mahmood by means of his counsel, Advocate Azhar Siddiq, who argued that the act was handed in violation of the Structure.
In response to the petitioner, who’s a member of the Punjab Meeting, a call-attention discover on the problem has already been submitted within the provincial legislature.
The petition states that kite flying stays typically prohibited and is handled as a non-bailable offence, whereas the celebration of Basant poses critical dangers to life and property.
It additional maintains that official notifications allowing the manufacture of kites and kite strings in residential areas have already been issued, which, it argues, might endanger public security.
The petitioner additionally advised the courtroom that a number of international locations, together with China, have imposed a whole ban on Basant due to the hazards related to the exercise. In these circumstances, the enforcement of the Kite Flying Act 2025, the plea says, is in opposition to the general public curiosity.
The petition has requested the LHC to declare the act null and void and to droop its implementation, together with all notifications issued underneath it, till a remaining determination is made within the case.
