Case Details

Citation(s)
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

  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…
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