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MUHAMMAD HUSSAIN vs PROVINCE OF PUNJAB through District Officer art — 2022 YLR 1634 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE

Case information

Citation
2022 YLR 1634 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE
Court
Lahore High Court
Year
2022
Reporter
YLR
Parties
MUHAMMAD HUSSAIN vs PROVINCE OF PUNJAB through District Officer art
Provisions referred to
S. 23

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Judgment text as reported

MUHAMMAD HUSSAIN VS PROVINCE OF PUNJAB through District Officer art. 71---Land acquisition act (I of 1894), S.23 & Preamble---Compensation, determination of---Commercial value of land--- Proof--- Hearsay evidence--- Effect---Price of acquired land was assessed as agricultural one---Plea of the appellants (landowners) was that compensation for their land, acquired for construction of housing society, should be given to them at the commercial rate, whereas the price was wrongly assessed as of agricultural land---Validity---appellants, apart from their attorney, also produced two witnesses but they deposed/admitted in the cross-examination that they had no personal knowledge about lis and had deposed whatever knowledge was given to them by the appellants---Statements of said witnesses were based on mere hearsay evidence which had narrow scope of intrinsic value until and unless the same had been corroborated with other evidence, whereas the art. 71 of Qanun-e-Shahadat, 1984 required that oral evidence shall be direct and such hearsay evidence was not admissible---appeal dismissed.

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