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(a) Lambardar------     ----Appointment-Local having hereditary claim in place of Hindu Lambardar-Appointed.   (b) Lambardar------   ----Appointment-Absentee need not be appointed. ORDER   This Lambardari of village Chakrala, District Sialkot fell vacant when Beli Ram, the last incumbent of the post died in April 1947. The Collector appointed Ghulam Mustafa appellant who is a collateral of Beli Ram and was argued to have a heredi tary claim. Even otherwise on merits, his appointment was considered to be in the interests of good administration. He is apparently influential as he is a member of the local Union:. Council. Sultan Ahmad, who is a Muhajir was overlooked by the Collector as he had already been appointed a Lambardar in a neighbouring estate. The learned Additional Commissioner, however, interfered in appeal. He held that as the vacancy had occurred due to the death of a Hindu Lambardar it should go to a displaced person. Further the fact that Sultan Ahmad had already been appointed a Lambardar in a neighbouring village did not stand in the way of his appointment as Lambardar of Chakrala. Ghulam Mustafa has come up in revision.   Two main points have been taken up before us; firstly that the Lambardari is hereditary qua Ghulam Mustafa and secondly, the respondent who is already a Lambardar in an…