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| 1966 SLG 4901 = 1966 SLD 4901 = 1966 PLD 33 |
West Pakistan
Revision No. 138 of 1958-59, decided on 9th September 1959.
Presented By: I. U. Khan
Revision No. 138 of 1958-59, decided on 9th September 1959.
Presented By: I. U. Khan
Pir GHULAM MUHAMMAD SHAH ---Petitioner
VERSUS
THE STATE-Respondent
Law: West Pakistan Land Reforms Regulation, 1959
Section: 15
West Pakistan Land Reforms Regulation, 1959, para. 15 --Petitioner, by mistake, showing his land lesser in area in Forms LC-I and LC-II-Deputy Land Commissioner resuming area found in difference--Entire land within permissible limits-Restora tion to petitioner of resumed area ordered. ORDER This is a revision filed against an order, dated the 13th of July 1959, passed by Land Commissioner, Hyderabad, who rejected an appeal preferred by-the petitioner against the orders passed by Deputy Land Commissioner, Hyderabad, who had directed the resumption of 34 acres and 20 ghuntas of land in spite of the fact that the total area owned by the petitioner including that piece of land was within the permissible limits. The facts of the case are that the petitioner filed Forms LC-I and LC-11 but, by mistake, gave his total area as 1,214 acres and 291 ghuntas instead of 1,249 acres and 10 ghuntas. The Deputy Land Commissioner allowed him to retain the area claimed by him in Form LC-II but ordered the resumption of the difference amounting to 34 acres and 20 ghuntas. The petitioner went in appeal to the Land Commissioner but the…