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Petitioner: MUHAMMAD SIDDIQUE VS Respondent: MUHAMMAD BOOTA
Court Name: Supreme Court of Pakistan Judge(s): Nasim Hasan Shah, M. S. H. Qureshi Title: MUHAMMAD SIDDIQUE vs MUHAMMAD BOOTA Case No.: Civil Petition No. 937 of 1980 S. A. O. No. 19 of 1973 Date of Judgment:1983-05-08 Reported As: 1983 SCMR 1262 Result: Appeal dismissed
Judgment ORDER M. S. H. QURAISHI, J.--The petitioner is a tenant against whom an order of ejectment was passed on the ground of bona fide personal use of the landlord. The decision has been upheld in the first appeal before the District Judge, Gujrat, and in second appeal before the Lahore High Court. Since the question is one of fact and has been concurrently concluded against the petitioner by all the three Courts below, there is hardly any scope for interference by this Court. 2. However, it is urged that the Rent Controller had erred in deciding the matter without first disposing of an application filed by the petitioner before him for adducing additional evidence. The contention which had for the first time been taken before the learned District Judge has been dealt with by both the appellate Courts below and rejected. The learned judge of the High Court after scrutiny of the record noticed that the application and the accompanying affidavit, had been placed "at fag end of the file and had not been numbered", that no such ground had been taken in the memorandum of the first appeal nor had any application been made for further inquiry under section 15(3) of the Rent Restriction Ordinance. The learned Judge, therefore, agreed with the first appellate Court that the application had been "manoeuvred to be brought on the file of the trial Court" after the appeal had been admitted for regular hearing. 3. We thus find no merit in this petition which is accordingly dismissed: M. Z. M.