Law: Constitution of Pakistan, 1973

Section: 4, 25, 199

Constitution of Pakistan (1973) Arts. 4, 25 & 199---Constitutional petition---Duty of public functionaries---Application filed by petitioner before Chairman, Regional Transport Authority in 1998 was not decided and was referred in 1999 to Mayor, Municipal Corporation for necessary action, who also did not take any action on that application due to political pressure---Effect---Public functionaries were duty. bound to act in accordance with law without fear, favour and nepotism as envisaged by Art.4 of Constitution of Pakistan-- Petitioner who was suffering loss on account of inaction of Authority, had inherent right to have his. application decided within a reasonable time-- Nobody should be penalized by act of public functionaries---High Court directed the Authority to decide application. of the petitioner strictly in accordance with law within specified time. Anjam Nawaz's case NLR 1990 CLJ 518; I.A. Sherwani's case 1999 SCMR 1041; Zahid Akhtar's case PLD 1995 SC 530; Ghulam Mohy ud-Din's case PLD 1964 SC 829 and PLD 1964 Lah. 3 ref.                                                                                                                                                        JUDGMENT The brief facts giving rise to this writ petition are that petitioner allotted (Bay)/Point No.33-in "C" Class General Bus Stand, Faisalabad for the route from Faisalabad to Rawalpindi. Respondent No.7 has already allotted (Bay)/Point No.31 for the same route at the same General Bus Stand prior to the petitioner. Petitioner's counsel stated that for the said route there are only petitioner and respondent No.7. It is further stated that respondent No.7 has allotted land adjacent to main gate of General Bus Stand. Respondent No.7 illegally operated his buses from his…