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ORDER   I find it necessary to modify the order which Mr. Nasir Ahmad, Financial Commissioner, Punjab, passed on 4-4-55 in favour of the present respondent. By the said order, he refused to accept the request which had been made by the present petitioners in respect of a building site in Chak No. 27/4-L, Tahsil Okara. This building site had been allotted to the   present             petitioners       by             the       Collector,             but       the Commissioner had accepted the appeal of the present respondent on the ground that the site had been previously allotted to him and should be re-allotted to him.   The Commissioner, however, overlooked the point that the Collector had, after allotting the site to the petitioners, executed a regular sale-deed in their favour on 29-9-53 and that the sale-deed had been duly registered in their favour on 1-10-53. The Com missioner's appellate order passed in favour of the present respon dent is dated 25-5-54 and determined the Revenue appeal bearing No. 216 of 1953-54.1 have little hesitation in holding that the appeal was instituted before the Commissioner after the date on which the petitioners had received the sale-deed referred to above.   When a building site in a village…