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

Section: XIV,3

Evacuee Property and Displaced Persons Laws (Repeal) Act (XIV of 1975)-- ----S.3 [as amended by Evacuee Property and Displaced Persons Laws (Repeal) (Amendment) Act (XXI of 2022)]---Evacuee property, disposal of---Cancellation of allotment---Utilization for public purpose---Petitioner claimed to be bona fide purchaser for valuable consideration from allottee of evacuee property--After cancellation of allotment of original allottee, petitioner filed application to purchase the property but the application was dismissed by Authorities--Validity---Subsequent purchasers of evacuee property from the allottee, whose allotment was cancelled and his title was completely extinguished, such vendees had to sail and sink with their vendors and they were debarred to claim any better title---After promulgation of Evacuee Property and Displaced Persons Laws (Repeal) (Amendment) Act, 2022 all evacuee properties stood transferred to Provincial Government for utilization for public purposes and same went out from the jurisdiction of Notified Officer, Chief Settlement Commissioner or Full Board to decide regarding permanent disposal in any manner whatsoever---It was only the Provincial Government which had a limited jurisdiction to utilize such land only for public purpose---High Court declined to interfere in the order passed by Board of Revenue / Chief Settlement Commissioner/ Administrator (Residual Properties)/ Notified Officer, Punjab, as petitioners failed to point out any illegality or material irregularity in the order and also did not identify any jurisdictional defect--Constitutional petition was dismissed, in circumstances. Muhammad Yamin and others v. Settlement Commissioner and others 1976 SCMR 489; Province of the Punjab through Collector, Sheikhupura and others v. Syed Ghazanfar Ali Shah and others 2017 SCMR 172; Abdul Hamid v. M.B.R and others 1994 CLC 1160 Malik Allah Ditta and others v. Member, Board of Revenue/(Judicial-V)/ Chief Settlement Commissioner /Notified Officer, Punjab, Lahore and another 2022 CLC 414 and Black's Law Dictionary (5th Edition) rel. Date of hearing: 16th September, 2025. JUDGMENT CH. MUHAMMAD IQBAL, J.---Through this Writ Petition,…