2002 CLC 1527 PESHAWAR-HIGH-COURT

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SHER AZAM VS PRINCE AMIN COLONY West Pakistan Urban Rent Restriction Ordinance 1959--13 , West Pakistan Urban Rent Restriction Ordinance 1959 ----S. 13---eviction proceedings before Rent Controller --Nature--Recording of evidence---Principles---Such proceedings are not in stricto senso judicial that evidence should be recorded in the same manner as in a civil suit---Rent Controller being "persons designata" is required to satisfy himself about the ground in the ejectment petition and pass the orders in consonance with justice---Principal object behind all legal formalities is to safeguard the paramount interest of justice---Legal precepts are devised with a view to impart certainty, consistency and uniformity to the administration of justice to secure the same against arbitrariness, error of individual judgment and mala fides.