KALIMUDDIN ANSART AND Another vs DIRECTOR, EXCISE AND TAXATION, — 1966 PLD 971

Citation: 1966 PLD 971

Court: Sindh High Court

Year: 1969

Decision Date: 1969-12-31

Parties: KALIMUDDIN ANSART AND Another vs DIRECTOR, EXCISE AND TAXATION, JUDGMENT

Headnotes

Case cited as PLD 1966 SC 971

Judgment Text

Court Name: Sindh High Court Judge(s): Qadeer-ud-Din Ahmad, Durab Patel Title:KALIMUDDIN ANSART AND Another vs DIRECTOR, EXCISE AND TAXATION, JUDGMENT Reported As: PLD 1970 Karachi 1 Result: Appeals dismissed Judgment JUDGMENT QADEERUDDIN AHMED, J.-----These three appeals have been filed against the judgments of an Additional District Judge, Karachi dated the 6th of February 1967, dismissing three suits filed by the appellants. As they involve common questions of law, we shall dispose of them by this judgment. 2. The facts material to these appeals are that after the establishment in 1948 of the Federal Capital in Karachi, the Government of Pakistan resumed 2,053 acres of waste land in Karachi, from the Karachi Municipal Corporation (hereafter called the K. M. C.), under section 57 of the K. M. C. Act, 1933 and then allotted it to the housing societies of Karachi. The Karachi Co-operative Housing Society Union (hereafter called the Housing Union) consists of 24 Co-operative Housing Societies. On the 1st of August 1951, the Government of Pakistan executed an agreement with the Pakistan Employees Co-operative Housing Society Limited (hereafter called the P. B. C, H. S.), by which it allotted .1292 acres of land to the P. E. C. H. S. As a licensee. The P. E. C. H. S. Was to divide that land into plots and then issue sub-licenses to its individual members in respect of them. After constructing buildings on those plots and payment of all charges in respect of them, the sub-…

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