Case Details

Citation(s)
2017 SLG 1355 2017 SLD 1355 2017 SCMR 404
Supreme Court of Pakistan
Civil Petition No. 66-L of 2013, decided on 5th September, 2016. Heard on: 5th September, 2016. (On appeal from judgment Dated 28.11.2012, passed by the Lahore High Court, Lahore, in R.S.A. No. 66 of 2010)
SH. AZMAT SAEED, JUSTICE, IJAZ UL AHSAN, JUSTICE
Malik Noor Muhammad Awan, Advocate Supreme Court and Mian Ghulam Hussain, Advocate-on-Record (absent) for Petitioner. Rana Nasrullah Khan, Advocate Supreme Court and Ch. Muhammad Anwar Khan, Advocate-on-Record (absent) for
Respondents.

MUHAMMAD ANWAR

VS

SAFEER AHMED AND 5 others

Law:

Section:

(a) Punjab Pre-emption Act (IX of 1991)---.--- ---.----S. 13---.---Suit for pre-emption---.---'Talb-e-Muwathibat'---.---Scope and proof---.---'Talb-i-Muwathibat' was a sine qua non for maintaining a suit for possession through pre-emption---.---Time, date and place of 'Talb-i-Muwathibat' must necessarily be pleaded in the plaint along with the source of information of the sale pre-empted. Muhammad Ismail v. Muhammad Yousaf 2012 SCMR 911; Mst. Imtiaz Begum and others v. Mst. Sultan Jan 2008 SCMR 1268 and Abdul Aziz v. Sheikh Fateh Muhammad 2007 SCMR 336 ref. (b) Punjab Pre-emption Act (IX of 1991)---.--- ---.----S. 13---.--- Suit for pre-emption---.---'Talb-e-Muwathibat'---.---Name of informant not mentioned in the plaint---.---Effect---.---Source of information of the sale pre-empted must necessarily be pleaded in the plaint, however, the same was not done by the pre-emptor in the present case---.---Suit for pre-emption was rightly dismissed---.---Petition for leave to appeal was dismissed accordingly. (c) Punjab Pre-emption Act (IX of 1991)---.--- ---.----S. 13---.---Suit for pre-emption---.---'Talb-e-Muwathibat', making of---.---Delay---.---Witnesses produced by the vendee categorically stated that the pre-emptor had the knowledge of the sale of the property in dispute on the date of such sale---.---Such portion of their statement had not been cross-examined---.---Pre-emptor entered the witness box and during his cross-examination conceded that the sale of the property would ordinarily be known to all and sundry in the locality---.---Pre-emptor also asserted that he had knowledge of such transaction on the date thereof which he stated to be 3-12-1994 (the sale actually took place on 30-11-1994)---.---Pre-emptor was unable to prove that the 'Talb-i-Muwathibat' was effected in accordance with law within the requisite time specified therein---.---Suit for pre-emption was rightly dismissed---.---Petition for leave to appeal was dismissed accordingly. THIS JUDGMENT DELIVERED BY: SH. AZMAT SAEED, JUSTICE:---.--- This Civil Petition for Leave to Appeal is directed against the judgment dated 28.11.2012, whereby a Regular Second Appeal bearing No.66 of 2010, filed by…
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