Doctrine of election

--- O. II, R. 2 --- Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Art. 114 --- Doctrine of election --- Parallel forums --- Scope --- When a party chooses to initiate proceedings through a specific forum where parallel remedies are available, it cannot subsequently abandon that election to seek recourse through another forum --- Such an action is barred under the doctrine of election, read with the principles of estoppel --- Where petitioners opted to challenge revenue mutations before the revenue hierarchy but later instituted a civil suit for the same relief without exhausting the former, the suit was hit by the doctrine of election.