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Petitioner: ATA ULLAH KHAN VS Respondent: MUHAMMAD SHAFT And Other
Court Name: Supreme Court of Pakistan Judge(s): M.S.H. Quraishi, Muhammad Afzal Zullah Title: ATA ULLAH KHAN vs MUHAMMAD SHAFT And Other Case No.: Civil Petition No. 385 of 1981 Petition No.215/R of 1980 Date of Judgment:- Reported As: 1985 SCMR 478 Result: I.
Judgment ORDER M.S.H.QURAISHI, J.-- From the land comprising Khasra Nos. 931, 933, 934, 935, 942, 945 and 2103, situate in village Mian Mir, within the municipal limits of the City of Lahore, the first to Khasra numbers were transferred to the Petitioner's father under Scheme No.VI and the remaining to the respondent's as agricultural land. This transfer in favour of the respondents was disputed by the petitioner who moved an application under section 10/11 of the Displaced Persons (Land Settlement) Act, 1958, contending that the property, according to the Special Jamabandi of 1946- 47, was " QABIL-E-TAMEER SHEHRI URBAN " and not agricultural land. The Settlement authorities after examining the revenue records for the period both prior and subsequent to 1947, came to the finding that the property was 'nehri' and cultivated by the petitioner's father as agricultural land. The High Court declined to go behind the above finding of fact and accordingly dismissed the petitioner's writ petition by the impugned order dated 11-1-1981. 2. We find no merit in this petition for leave to appeal, not only for the reason that the High Court was justified in declining to interfere with a finding of fact but also because the petitioner having already received allotment of Khasras Nos.931 and 933 under Scheme No. VI could not lay claim to transfer in his favour of other portions of the land upon an assertion that the same were urban plots. The petition is dismissed.
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