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  Lambardar-Appointment - Candidate, a Canal Patwari, owning no land in patti, cannot be appointed.   Practice-Concurrent finding of fact by Collector and Commissioner-Not interfered with.   ORDER   This is a revision against an order, dated the 5th of December 1964, passed by the Commissioner, Lahore Division, whereby the appeal preferred by the petitioner was dismissed.   The facts of the case are that, when the question of filling up a permanent vacancy in this Patti, caused by the migration of non-Muslim Lambardar, came up for consideration, three candidates, including the parties, applied for the post. The Collector preferred the respondent. The petitioner went in appeal to the Commissioner, but it was rejected. Hence this revision.   I have heard the learned counsel for the petitioner at great length. It is true that the petitioner belongs to the Rajput community and his father was a Lambardar and he also owns more land, but he suffers from incurable defect of owning no land in this Patti. The learned counsel for the petitioner has referred me to the following rulings:----   (1) P L D 1964 W P (Rev.) 16. (2) P L D 1963 W P (Rev.) 72. P L D 1962 W P (Rev.) 20. P L D 1950 Pb. (Rev.) 1055.   So far as the first ruling is concerned, I respectfully differed from the view of my…