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

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MUHAMMAD PERVAIZ SULTAN VS MUHAMMAD SHAFIQ Rr. 17 & 22---appointment of Village Headman (lambardar)---Rule of primogeniture and/or hereditary---Scope---Petitioner (erstwhile lambardar wanting his son to be new lambardar) challenged appointment of the respondent as new lambardar replacing him (petitioner)---Validity---In the present case, as per written assertion of the petitioner, since 1926 i.e. nearing a century, the post was being held by a single family of the Patti---The appointment of lambardar is essentially an administrative matter and there is no vested right of any person to lay claim to said effect---Therefore, it is left to the revenue functionaries to appoint the most suitable person as lambardar---The Choice of the District Collector should be given preference unless it is perverse---The duties of headman includes the collection of land revenue and other sums recoverable as arrears of land revenue, implementation of orders received from the Collector, furnishing of the information or to assist the officers of the Government and revenue field staff in discharging of their duties---The nature of said duties requires that the lambardar should be a person having social and human relationship with the population of the said village---The lambardar should also be a man of character---In the present case, the respondent was chosen by the District Collector and the Commissioner through the well-reasoned (impugned) orders---Respondent was more educated and owned more landed property than the petitioner and was quite fit and mature person aged 51-years---Respondent was permanent resident of concerned village which was evident from his CNIC, domicile, and voter list---Respondent was an active social worker and had been working as member and as head of different local government committees---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 lambardar, being merit-less, was dismissed in circumstances.

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

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