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P L D 1957 W. P. (Rev.) 19         Lambardar------   ----Commissioner upsetting choice of Collector and appointing candidate having better personal claims Commissioner justified.     ORDER   H. A. MAJID.-----The present petitioner was selected by the Collector for the Lambardari appointment in dispute. The Commissioner, however, replaced him by the present respondent.   There is no doubt that the petitioner belongs to the predominent Gujjar tribe. His holding is, however, much smaller than that of the respondent in this estate. The fact that he is entitled to receive some more land in some other estate or district is not very material to the decision in the present case.   The Commissioner observed that the respondent had better personal claims than the petitioner. This fact is not seriously contested by the petitioner. The petitioner has, however, stated in very emphatical terms that the Commis sioner was not justified in stating that he had failed to perform his Lambardari duties properly in a village in the Hafizabad Tahsil. The Commissioner states that the present petitioner had failed to collect the land revenue in time and had left considerable arrears uncollected. The fact of the matter is that the petitioner was a temporary Lambardar and when he got land allotted to him in the village in dispute, he left the Lambardari work of the village in the Hafizabad Tahsil with his uncle, and the only arrears left uncollected were arrears of the rent of evacuee property. The petitioner has now produced copies of reports recorded in the Gujranwala District in order to show that his record as a temporary Lambardar was not black. I am willing…