Case Details

Citation(s)
2024 SLG 4208 2024 PLJ 943 , 2024 SLD 4208
Appellate Jurisdiction
Crl. P. No. 243 of 2024, decided on 22.5.2024.
resent: Muhammad Ali Mazhar and Athar Minallah, JJ.
Mr. Saad Umar Buttar, ASC and Sh. Mahmood Ahmad, AOR for Appellants (in all cases). Barrister Umer Aslam Khan, ASC for
Respondents (in all cases).

MUHAMMAD ASLAM (decd.) thr. his LRs--Appellants

VERSUS

Molvi MUHAMMAD ISHAQ (decd.) thr. L.Rs.--Respondents

Law: Criminal Procedure Code, 1898 (V of 1898)--

Section: 497/ 302/118/120-B/506/109/47

Specific Relief Act, 1877 (I of 1877)-- ----S. 9--Punjab Pre-emption Act, (IX of 1991), Ss. 13 & 54--Civil Procedure Code, (V of 1908), S. 12(2)--Suits for possession and pre-emption--Decreed--Appeals--Allowed--Civil revision--Accepted--CPLA’s--Allowed--Compromise--Possession was handed over to decree holder--Execution petitions were allowed--Matter was resolved in favour of appellants--Statement of attorney regarding compromise in Court--No default of appellants in payment of zar-e-shufa--No objection regarding compromise was raised by attorney or his legal heirs--Applications u/S. 12(2) of CPC were allowed--Time-barred--Suit for permanent injunction against appellants were filed--Decreed--Remand in civil petition before Apex Court--Contempt application--Dismissed--Veracity of compromise--Topographical error--Appellants for all practical purposes were owners of said OS Kanals and 02 Marlas and claim of Respondents in that regard that Appellants were only entitled for land holding of 01 Kanal and 02 Marlas was misconceived, unwarranted, and uncalled for--It was Attorney who had hired counsel, on behalf of Abdul Qayyum, to represent their cases before different fora in earlier round of litigation--It was quite strange to note that said Haji Abdul Jalil subsequently, while appearing before trial Court made an unwarranted statement that he had neither appeared before a Court of law nor entered into a compromise before a Judge of High Court as a lawful Attorney--Whereas record clearly depicts that it was he who filed and signed compromise Application before High Court, and it was he who appeared before High Court, by entering into a compromise, with present Appellants--Abdul Qayyum passed away in year 1988, whereas compromise was entered in year 1979, and he never uttered a single word during his lifetime either with regard to veracity of compromise entered by his Attorney before Court or with regard to genuineness of Power of Attorney and it was only after his death that his legal heirs filed Applications under section 12(2) CPC questioning compromise or lesser payment of Zar-e-Shufa--Legal heirs kept mum for a number of years and, thereafter, agitated matter…
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