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Civil Petitions Nos. 551 and 553 of 1980, decided on 9th September, 1985.
(Against the judgment and order, dated 6‑2‑1980 of the Lahore High Court, Lahore, in Writ Petitions Nos. 606, 1170 and 831 of 1978).
‑‑‑Art. 185(3)‑‑Leave to appeal‑‑Grant of leave to appeal having already been granted in cases involving identical question of law‑‑Leave granted.
Fazal‑i‑Hussain, Advocate‑on‑Record for Petitioners.
Nemo for Respondents.
Date of hearing: 9th September, 1985.
‑The Federation of Pakistan by three separate petitions seeks leave to appeal against the judgment of the Lahore High Court, dated 6th February, 1980 whereby the decision on a question of law given in M. Afzal & Sons v. Federal Government of Pakistan, P L D 1977 Lah. 1327, we followed in deciding the Constitutional petitions filed by the respondents which were allowed.
2. Mr. Fazal‑i‑Hussain, the learned counsel for the petitioners has stated that leave to appeal has already been granted in M. Afzal & Sons and other connected petitions (Civil Petitions 138‑8 to 143‑R of 1977) and as the question of law involved is identical, the leave to appeal should be allowed in these petitions also and the matter be heard alongwith those petitions.
Leave to appeal is granted. The appeals to be heard on the present record alongwith the other connected matters. The parties are at liberty to file such additional documents as they consider necessary.
M.I. Leave granted.
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