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Lambardar-Appointment----   ---Choice of Collector cannot be upset, if it is not manifestly foolish or perverse. ORDER   This is a second appeal which has been preferred by Chiragh Din of Chak No. 94/ML, District Muzaffargarh, who had initially been appointed as Lambardar, by the Collector, against the orders of the Additional Commissioner, Multan, who had preferred Din Muhammad respondent, the rival claimant. The reasons which prompted the Additional Com missioner to select Din Muhammad do not appear to me to be justified. He has stated that Din Muhammad owned 30 acres of land, but it is alleged, and it has not been controverted, that half of this area is held by him in his capacity as temporary Lambardar of the Chak. Further that Din Muhammad had worked-as a Lambardar in Gujranwala and was also a temporary Lambardar of the Cloak. There is no evidence to support the former assertion. As regards the latter, the Collector preferred the petitioner in spite of this fact which was known to him. As a matter of fact the Collector considered both the candidates to be equally balanced in their claims and preferred Chiragh Din on grounds of literacy. Another point which the learned Additional Commissioner considered to be in favour of the…