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Civil Petition No. 616 of 1980; decided on 10th August, 1983.

(From the judgment dated 25th February, 1980 of the Lahore High Court, Lahore passed in W. P. No. 718/1966).

‑‑Arts. 185 (3) & 199‑Transfer of evacuee property‑‑High Court dismissing writ petition of petitioner on finding that he was stopped to agitate matter on plea. different from that raised before Settlement Authorities and that matter having been concluded by order of Chief Settlement Commissioner by issuance of .P. T. D. in favour of respondent. Settlement' Authorities had no jurisdiction to re‑open matter Head, order of High Court cannot be interfered with, in circumstances of case.

Syed Munir Hussain, Advocate Supreme Court instructed by Hameed Aslam Qureshi, Advocate‑on‑Record for Petitioner.

Shehzad Jehangir, Advocate Supreme Court for Respondents.

Date of hearing : 10th August, 1983:

.‑House No. 3822, Pakpattan, was divided into two units and transferred one each in favour of respondents 1 and 2 by the Deputy Settlement Commissioner on 23‑12‑1959. The petitioner, .who had set up a shop on one Marla of the property, challenged the transfer by appeal which was, however dismissed by the Additional Settlement Com missioner for the reason that the house is too small to be sub‑divided. It consists of only 2 Marlas of land". This ‑ finding was challenged by the petitioner in a review petition wherein he asserted that property No. 3822 was on a plot measuring 14 Marlas 3 Sarsais and not 2 Marlas and that his shop was in. that property. He repeated the same assertion in his revision petition, which he filed after dismissal of his review application. He failed throughout and ultimately his second revision before the Chief Settlement Commissioner was dismissed on 20‑9‑1963.

2. Having failed so far, he changed his position and asserting on the basis of the aforesaid observation of the Additional Settlement Commissioner , that the area of House No. 3822 was only 2 Marlas he sought on 13‑11‑1964 transfer of the area of 1 .Maria of his shop in his possession, claiming the same to be available and being part of an adjoining plot of 12 Marlas. He ultimately succeeded before the learned Settlement Commissioner, Montgo mery, who by order dated 16‑3‑1966 accepted his revision and directed the Deputy Settlement Commissioner to carry out measurement of the entire site according to the revenue record, demarcate the actual area of unit No. 3822 as given in the taxation register, amend the transferees' P. T. Ds. accordingly and re‑consider the petitioner's claim in accordance with law. The respon dents challenged this order by a writ petition which was accepted by the impugned judgment dated 25‑2‑1980 upon the view that the petitioner having asserted that his shop had been part of the property transferred to the respondents was stopped from re‑agitating the matter on a different plea ; that the matter having been concluded by the order of the Chief Settlement Commissioner dated 20‑9‑1968 and P. T. Ds. having issued in favour of the respondents, the Settlement Authorities had no jurisdiction to re‑open the same.

3. The original transfer order dated 23‑12‑1959 does not give the extent of the property transferred to the respondents. It had never been the petitioner's case until 13‑11‑1964 that the shop did not form part of the property already transferred in favour of the respondents, in the circum stances. We are not inclined to interfere with the view taken by the High Court and dismiss this petition.

S. Q. Petition dismissed.

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