Case Details

Citation(s)
2024 SLG 2921 2024 SLD 2921 2024 CLC 682
Lahore High Court, Rawalpindi Bench, Rawalpindi
Writ Petition No.2826-R of 2022, heard on 11th October,2023.Date of hearing: 11th October, 2022.
Before Mirza Viqas Rauf, J
Mujeeb ur Rehman Kiani for Petitioners.Muhammad Siddique Awan, Additional Attorney General for Pakistan, Hafiz Ahsan Ahmed Khokhar, Sh. Iftikhar Ahmad and Syed Najam ul Hassan Hashmi, Advocates/Legal Advisors for
Respondent No.1.Nemo for
Respondents N

SAMINA NAZ and 5 others----Petitioners

VERSUS

EVACUEE TRUST PROPERTIES BOARD through Administrator Northern Zone, Evacuee Trust Properties Board, 7th Road, Rawalpindi and another----Respondents

Law: Evacuee Property and Displaced Persons Laws (Repeal) Act, 1975

Section: 25

Evacuee Trust Properties (Management and Disposal) Act (XIII of 1975)--- ----S. 25---Scheme for Management and Disposal of Urban Evacuee Trust Properties, 1977, Chapter VI-A, Cl. 18-A(5)---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Constitutional petition---Evacuee property, status of---Recovery of possession---Building structure---Entitlement structure vests in the Board---Petitioners after remaining unsuccessful till Supreme Court assailed act of recovery of possession of "subject property" by respondent Board---Validity---Petitioners could not take refuge under the doctrine of election to protect their possession, which was not only unauthorized but illegal---Petitioners being not entitled for superstructure built upon "subject property", as in terms of Cl. 18-A(5) Chapter VI-A of Scheme for Management and Disposal of Urban Evacuee Trust Properties, 1977, structure raised on evacuee trust property vested in respondent Board---Petitioners after being unsuccessful in first round arising from civil suit had devised mechanism to protect their illegal and unauthorized possession upon "subject property" by filing a Constitutional petition---Petitioners did not have any right in "subject property" and filing of Constitutional petition was nothing but to thwart and circumvent process of law---Constitutional jurisdiction was not meant to provide aid to a party, who was adamant to grab property of State---On account of unauthorized possession, petitioners had already earned a lot of money through rent received from tenants of shops constructed on "subject property"---High Court declined to interfere in matter as it was not only frivolous but vexatious---Constitutional petition was dismissed, in circumstances. Trading Corporation of Pakistan v. Devan Sugar Mills Limited and others PLD 2018 SC 828; Liaqat Ali Khan and 10 others v. Chief Settlement Commissioner, Member (Judicial-V) and 6 others 2021 YLR 349; Irfan Ullah Khan v. Province of the Punjab and others 2020 CLC 594 and Atif Riaz v. Federation of Pakistan through Secretary Ministry of Religious Affairs, Islamabad and 6 others PLD 2023 Lah. 536 ref. Arshad Ali and 3 others v. Sartaj and 8 others 2016 YLR 127; Anjum and…
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