Ch. MUHAMMAD JALAL KHAN vs THE CHIEF SETTLEMENT COMMISSIONER — 1970 SCMR 670

Citation: 1970 SCMR 670

Court: Supreme Court of Pakistan

Year: 1969

Decision Date: 1969-12-31

Parties: Ch. MUHAMMAD JALAL KHAN vs THE CHIEF SETTLEMENT COMMISSIONER, JUDGMENT

Headnotes

Result: Leave refused Judgment JUDGMENT SAJJAD AHMAD, J.-The appellant, who is a local, is in occupation of bungalow No. 143, Railway Road, Lyallpur, as an allottee.

Judgment Text

Court Name: Supreme Court of Pakistan Judge(s): Hamoodur Rahman, Sajjad Ahmad Jan, Muhammad Yaqub Ali Khan Title:Ch. MUHAMMAD JALAL KHAN vs THE CHIEF SETTLEMENT COMMISSIONER, JUDGMENT Reported As: 1970 SCMR 670 Result: Leave refused Judgment JUDGMENT SAJJAD AHMAD, J.-The appellant, who is a local, is in occupation of bungalow No. 143, Railway Road, Lyallpur, as an allottee. This was originally transferred to respondent No. 4 Shaikh Muhammad Amin along with a piece of land in the neighborhood of the bungalow wherein he had set up a dairy farm. On an information by Mst. Jannat Noor, respondent No. 3 that he had secured the transfer of the bungalow unauthorized without any right, the Settlement Commissioner revoked the transfer in his favour, and ordered that it should be made over to Mst. Jannat Noor as an informer. Muhammad Amin aforesaid filed a writ petition in the High Court which was dismissed by a learned Single Judge. He then filed a Letters Patent Appeal (No. 411 of 1966) which is still pending in the High Court. The appellant applied to the Letters Patent Bench for being impleaded as a party in the appeal which was refused, leading to a petition to this Court for special leave to appeal which was allowed to consider whether in the circumstances of the case the High Court was justified in refusing to implead the appellant as a party. It is contended by Mr. Mahmud Ali Kasuri, the learned counsel for the appellant, that under Settlement Scheme No. 8, as amended on…

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