2025 YLR 13 LAHORE-HIGH-COURT-LAHORE

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Khurram Shahzad VS Zeeshan Nawaz S. 5---Landlord and tenant relationship---Proof---Petitioners / tenants assailed eviction orders passed by two Courts below on the plea that there was no relationship of landlord and tenant between the parties--- Validity---Petitioners were only tenants of rented premises and were acting in support of their purported landlord to prove his title in respect of rented premises---Petitioners had made all-out efforts to prolong tenancy under their purported landlord, and filing of suit for rendition of accounts against him and respondent/landlord was another attempt to continue with the same---Alleged connivance between purported landlord and respondent/landlord had no benefit to the latter, who was striving hard to seek eviction of petitioners / tenants from rented premises---Suit instituted by purported landlord for specific performance of contract in respect of rented premises was dismissed and if a new round of litigation in the form of suit for rendition of accounts had been initiated by petitioners / tenants, the same only facilitated petitioners / tenants or purported landlord to further prolong litigation in respect of rented premises---High Court declined to interfere in eviction orders passed by two Courts below, as the same did not suffer from any illegality, misreading/non-reading, jurisdictional defect or procedural impropriety---Constitutional petition was dismissed, in circumstances.