Case Details

Citation(s)
1967 SLG 67 1967 SLD 67 1967 PLD 428
Supreme Court of Pakistan
Civil Appeal No. 149 of 1963, decision dated: 30th May 1967.ji
A. R. CORNELIUS, C.J., FAZLEAKBAR, HAMOODUR RAHMAN AND MUHAMMAD YAQUB ALI, JJ
Mahmud Ali, Senior Advocate Supreme Court instructed by M. Siddiq, Senior Attorney for Appellants. Ghias Muhammad, Attorney General for Pakistan (Nazir Ahmad Khan, Advocate Supreme Court with him), Iftikhar-ud-Din Ahmad, Attorney No. 1. A. K. Brohi, Sen

(1) IRFANULLAH KHAN AND (2) SARWAT HUSSAIN SIDDIQI

VS

(1) TAE CHIEF SETTLEMENT COMMISSIONER, LAHORE AND (2) KISHWAR SULTANA

Law:

Section:

(a) Constitution of Pakistan (1962), Art. 58(3) -Leave to appeal-Granted by Supreme Court to consider "a number of important questions" arising under Displaced (Compensation and Rehabilitation) Act (XXVIII of 1958), Sched. para. 15-A in regard to mode of transfer of a cinema by public unrestricted auction or by private negotiation. (b) Displaced Persons (Compensation and Rehabilitation) Act (XXVIII of 1958), Sched, para. 18 - Transfer of property--­Price paid by furnishing compensation books, unaccompanied by agreements of association-Not proper payment. (c) Displaced Persons (Compensation and Rehabilitation) Act (XXVIII of 1958), S. 2(2) - "Claimant" - Father (claimant) asking Deputy Settlement Commissioner to enter his son's name in his compensation book instead of his own name - Deputy Settlement Commissioner acceding to such request-Sons do not thereby become "claimants" within meaning of S. 2(2). (d) Displaced Persons (Compensation and Rehabilitation) Act (XXVIII of 1958), Sched. paras. 18, 23 & 25-Transferee exhibiting no anxiety to make good payments which were due, and which he expressly admitted to be due -Estopped from raising plea that he should have been allowed to pay in a "more relaxed" form. (e) Displaced Persons (Compensation and Rehabilitation) Act (XXVII! of 1958), Sched. para. 15-A read with Central Government's instructions dated 19-10-1959, para. (5)-Transfer of cinema by inviting tenders already cancelled by Chief Settlement Commissioner for transferee's default in payment of price-Subsequent transferee by auction, whether has locus standi to question mode of earlier transfer by inviting tenders as being in violation of para. (5) of instructions. (f ) Displaced Persons (Compensation and Rehabilitation) Act (XXVIII of 1958), Sehed. paras. 15, 15-A, read with para. (5) of Central Government's instructions dated 19-10-1959-Purchaser by public auction not being able to make payment of bid-Chief Settlement Commissioner satisfied with amount of bid, but due to default of bidder, disposing of cinema house by inviting tenders ­Transfer to tenderers, held, not "in accordance with statutory provisions"-"Condition precedent" to application of…
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