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Petitioner: MULTAN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY VS Respondent: ASHIQ MUHAMMAD KHAN and another
Court Name: Supreme Court of Pakistan Judge(s): Khalil-ur-Rehman Ramday, Tanvir Ahmed Khan Title: MULTAN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY vs ASHIQ MUHAMMAD KHAN and another Case No.: Civil Petition for Leave to Appeal No,742/L of 2002 Date of Judgment:2003-03-25 Reported As: 2005 SCMR 1289 Result: Leave granted
Judgment ORDER ' TANVIR AHMED KHAN, J.--- Leave to appeal is sought against the judgment, dated 7-12-2001 whereby a learned Single Judge of the Lahore High Court, Multan Bench, Multan, dismissed the civil revision filed by the petitioner. ' It is pertinent to mention here that leave, on the issues which are now urged by the petitioner, was granted by this Court in Civil Petition No,1434/L of 1996 (Lahore Development Authority v. W.Z. Studios and others) on 30-11-1996. However, this case was subsequently, withdrawn by the parties because of a compromise reached between them. ' After hearing the learned counsel for the parties, we grant leave to consider, inter alia, (1) whether apart from the public notice envisaged under section 6(1) of Punjab Acquisition of Land (Housing) Act VIII of 1973, is it also necessary to serve personal notice on all the owners of the land and claimants of interest in such land; (2) whether non-service of personal notice would vitiate the acquisition proceedings; and (3) whether the statutory notices contemplated in various provisions of the Act are intended for the purpose of assessment of compensation only or they are also meant to provide an opportunity to the affected persons to object to the acquisition of the land sought to be acquired.
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