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| 2014 SLG 1006 2014 SLD 1006 2014 YLR 2468 |
Lahore High Court
Civil Revision No. 652-D of 2013, heard on 13-01-2014.
ARSHAD MAHMOOD TABASSUM, JUSTICE
Sarfraz Ali Khan for Petitioners. Syed Akhlaq Ahmad for
Respondents.
Civil Revision No. 652-D of 2013, heard on 13-01-2014.
ARSHAD MAHMOOD TABASSUM, JUSTICE
Sarfraz Ali Khan for Petitioners. Syed Akhlaq Ahmad for
Respondents.
LIAQAT ALI KHAN AND ANOTHERS
VS
AHMED HASSAN SIDDIQUI AND 5 OTHERS
Law: Specific Relief Act, 1877
Section: 8
Law: Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984)
Section: 129
Law: Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908)
Section: O.XIII,R.4,S.115
Law: Limitation Act, 1908
Section: 144
(a) Specific Relief Act (I of 1877)--- ----S. 8---Limitation Act (IX of 1908), Art.144---Qanun-e-Shahadat (10 of 1984), Art.129---Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908), O. XIII, R.4---Suit for possession of immovable property---Limitation---Oral evidence against documentary evidence---Scope---Contention of plaintiffs was that defendants had forcibly occupied the suit property---Suit was decreed concurrently---Validity---Claim of plaintiffs was based upon sale-deed execution and presentation of which for registration had not been denied by the defendants---Sale-deed being a registered document had presumption of truth---Oral evidence could not take preference over the documentary evidence---Said sale-deed had not been challenged or got set aside by the defendants from any forum---Disputed house was transferred in favour of plaintiffs in the record of Cantonment Board---Act which was performed in the ordinary course of business had presumption of correctness---Defendants had decision of Jirga in their favour but same had no weight as neither scribe nor members of said Jirga appeared before the court to prove said document---Presence of parties had not been marked in the decision of Jirga nor their signatures appeared on the same---Defendants had not produced anybody who was conversant with the hand writing or signatures of members of Jirga to prove said document---Exhibition of document was one thing and its proof was another---Exhibition of document did not mean that same stood proved rather the party relying upon such document was supposed to prove the same in accordance with law---Suit was filed after 9 years and same was not barred by time---Defendants had not raised plea of adverse possession in their written statement---Period of 12 years had been provided for such suit which would start from the date when the possession of plaintiffs had become adverse to the defendants---Both the courts below had properly and lawfully appreciated the evidence available on record---Revision was dismissed in circumstances. Noor Muhammad's case 2012 SCMR 1373 and Muhammad Anwar and another's case 2007 SCMR 1510 rel. (b) Civil Procedure Code (V of 1908)--- ----S. 115---Revisional…
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