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Petitioner: MUHAMMAD BASHIR VS Respondent: SETTLEMENT & REHABILITATION COMMISSIONER AND ANOTHER
Court Name: Supreme Court of Pakistan Judge(s): Nasim Hasan Shah, Aslam Riaz Hussain Title:MUHAMMAD BASHIR vs SETTLEMENT & REHABILITATION COMMISSIONER AND
ANOTHER Case No.: Civil Petition No, 636 of 1976 Writ Petition No, 684/R/1976 Date of Judgment:1984-05-25 Reported As: 1984 SCMR 1164 Result: Petition dismissed Judgment ORDER ' NASIM HASAN SHAH, J.-The question before the Settlement authorities ultimately was whether the Chaubara in dispute could be treated as an independent unit and, therefore, be transferred separately. ' After protracted proceedings it was held in the last order passed in the Settlement Document, namely, the order, dated 28-2-1976 by the Settlement Rehabilitation Commissioner that the chaubara in question was an independent unit and was, accordingly, ordered to be transferred to its occupant viz. The respondent No, 2 herein. This order was challenged by the petitioner by filing a writ petition in the Lahore High Court, but a learned Single Judge of the said Court, who heard the said petition, found no reason to interfere with the findings of the Settlement Commissioner and, accordingly, dismissed the writ petition. Hence this petition for leave to appeal. ' We have heard Syed Muhammad Ali Zaidi, Advocate in support of this petition at some length. The question involved is essentially one of fact, namely, whether the chaubara in dispute was or was not an independent unit on which the highest authority in the settlement organisation has given a finding that it was an independent and separate unit. The High Court, therefore, rightly refused to interfere with the said finding and we fully agree with the High Court in this regard. Accordingly, its order requires no interference b this Court.