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MUHAMMAD PERVAIZ SULTAN vs MUHAMMAD SHAFIQ Rr — 2025 CLC 1447 BOARD-OF-REVENUE-PUNJAB

Case information

Citation
2025 CLC 1447 BOARD-OF-REVENUE-PUNJAB
Year
2025
Reporter
CLC
Parties
MUHAMMAD PERVAIZ SULTAN vs MUHAMMAD SHAFIQ Rr

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Judgment text as reported

MUHAMMAD PERVAIZ SULTAN VS MUHAMMAD SHAFIQ Rr. 17 & 18(2)(c)---appointment of new Village Headman (lambardar)---Old age of existing lambardar---Effect---Petitioner (erstwhile lambardar wanting his son to be new lambardar) challenged appointment of the respondent as new lambardar replacing him (petitioner)---Validity---Petitioner was an old man of more than of 70 years of age with poor health and was not in a position to perform duties of lambardar---Despite having been asked/called by (this) Court to appear in-person before Court, he could not appear in person---Statement of the petitioner recorded before the concerned District Collector in a case for appointment of his son revealed that he (petitioner), while expressing his wish for appointment of his son as his sarbarah lambardar, showed his unavailability and inability to work as lambardar owing to his poor health and old age---Said very statement, being acceptance of petitioner's poor health, itself attracted the provision of Rule 18(2)(c) of Land Revenue Rules, 1968 under Dismissal of headman---Member-Board of Revenue upheld the impugned orders, appointing the respondent as lambardar (Village Headman), passed by the District Collector as well as the Commissioner---Revision petition filed by erstwhile lamardar, being merit-less, was dismissed in circumstances.

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