Case Details

Citation(s)
2022 SLG 3140 2022 SLD 3140 2022 YLR 1653
High Court (AJ&K)
Writ Petition No. 37 of 2009, decided on 18th February, 2022.
CHAUDHARY KHALID RASHEED, J
Sardar Ghulam Mustafa for Petitioners. Nemo for
Respondents.

MUHAMMAD ZULQARNAIN and 11 others

VS

MUHAMMAD PERVAIZ KHAN and 13 others

Law: Azad Jammu and Kashmir Regularization of Nautors and Grant of Khalsa Land Ordinance, 1974

Section: 2(v),2(ix),3

Azad Jammu and Kashmir Regularization of Nautors and Grant of Khalsa Land Ordinance (VI of 1974)--- ----Ss. 2(v), 2(ix) 3---Land Ghair Mumkin Charand---Village common purposes---Jamabandi, presumption of correctness contended that the private respondents never remained in possession of the said land; that order of the Member Board of Revenue was not speaking order; that one of the respondents being employee of the Revenue Department maneuvered the entries in the Khasra Girdawari but in Jamabandi the respondents were not entered as in continuous possession of the land; and that land demarcated for common purposes under Regularization and Grant of Khalsa Land Ordinance, 1974, could not be sanctioned in favour of any person---Member Board of Revenue reversed the order of the Additional Commissioner--- Validity--- Land in question was entered as Ghair Mumkin Charand (grazing land) in the Jamabandi which was used for village common purpose excluded from the definition of Khalsa Land---Such land could not be regularized under S.3 of the Ordinance, 1974---Member Board of Revenue did not deny the fact that the land in question would come within the category of Ghair Mumkin Charand (grazing land)---Member Board of Revenue reversed the findings of Additional Commissioner on the basis of entries in the Khasra Girdawaries despite the fact that presumption of truth would be attached with Jamabandi and not with Girdawaries---According to the report of Girdawar petitioners were in possession of the disputed land for the last 40 years in shape of houses/growing crops---Said report also revealed that private respondents managed to get entries of their possession in the Khasra Girdawaries which flagrantly negated by the entries in Jamabandi---Member Board of Revenue had failed to pass a well-reasoned/speaking order whereas the order passed by Additional Commissioner was a detailed/well-reasoned which entailed to be upheld---Writ petition was accepted accordingly. 2005 CLC 176 and PLD 1992 Lah. 345 rel. JUDGMENT CHAUDHARY KHALID RASHEED, JUSTICE:---.--- Through this petition filed under Article 44 of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Interim Constitution, 1974, the legality and…
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