Law: Constitution of Pakistan, 1973

Section: 199

Constitution of Pakistan (1973) Art. 199-Writ jurisdiction-Settlement and Rehabilitation Authorities having right to declare a piece of land as a plot and not agricultural land, order passed in such regard being not without jurisdiction, held, cannot be said to be without lawful authority so as to be open to challenge in writ jurisdiction of High Court. [Jurisdiction[. Date of hearing : 11th February, 1981.                                                                                                                                                                ORDER KARAM ELAHEE CHAUHAN, J.-The petitioners desired transfer of g small area bearing Khasra No. 701 as an agricultural land but having failed at the departmental levels he filed a constitutional petition being W.P. 736 -/75 but without any success as the same was dismissed by the High Court, vide its order dated 23rd July, 1975. He has now come up in a petition for special leave to appeal against the same to this Court. 2. The only point argued was that nature of…