1990 SCMR 460 SUPREME-COURT

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MUHAMMAD AMIR VS ADDITIONAL DISTRICT JUDGE West Pakistan Urban Rent Restriction Ordinance 1959--13 , West Pakistan Urban Rent Restriction Ordinance 1959 ---S.13---Constitution of Pakistan (1973), Art. 185(3)---Ejectment of tenant--Tenants denying relationship of landlord and tenant by setting up plea of adverse possession---Rent Controller dismissed landlord's application---Appellate Court reversing Rent Controller's decision, ordered ejectment of tenants---Tenants' Constitutional petition against ejectment dismissed---Legality---Landlord's case rested on rent deed having been executed by the predecessor of tenants in his favour---Tenants' plea that rent deed was a forged document was rejected by the Appellate Court, upholding validity and genuineness thereof---In presence of such rent deed, tenants' plea that they had become owners of premises through adverse possession could not be accepted---High Court was thus right in not interfering with the order of eviction passed by the Appellate Court---Leave refused.