Case Details

Citation(s)
1987 SLG 488 1987 SLD 488 1987 SCMR 1347
Supreme Court of Pakistan
Civil Petition No.80R of 1986, decided on 28th August,1986. (On appeal from the judgment and order of the High Court of Baluchistan Quetta dated 24121985 passed in Constitutional Petition No.21 of 1983).
MUHAMMAD AFZAL ZULLAH, S.A. NUSRAT AND ALI HUSSAIN QIZALBASH, JJ
Iftikhar Muhammad, Advocate-on-Record for
Respondent.

FEDERATION OF PAKISTAN and 2 others

VS

Major (Rtd.) MUHAMMAD SABIR KHAN

Law:

Section:

Constitution of Pakistan (1973)----Arts. 185(3) 199--Constitutional petition--Maintainability of-Matter involving disputed questions of fact--Leave to appeal granted to consider contention that Constitutional jurisdiction could not be invoked in matters requiring determination of factual controversies and detailed inquiry which required recording of evidence. ORDER S.A. NUSRAT, J.--The respondent filed a Constitutional Petition in the Baluchistan High Court Quetta seeking relief that the action of the petitioner dispossessing him from agricultural land in dispute may be declared as without lawful authority and the petitioner directed to hand over possession of the land to him. The ownership of the land was claimed by respondent on the basis of certain registered and unregistered sale-deeds executed between 1965 to 1971 by persons named in the documents and owners thereof. The Constitutional petition was resisted on the ground that the land belonged to Government of Baluchistan and was meant for the establishment of Corps Scouts of Mahsud Scouts. The respondent was said to be the first contingent Commandar of the Forces posted at Khuzdar at the relevant time and was entrusted with the job of procuring lands for that purpose.…
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