2006 SCMR 1073 SUPREME-COURT

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QURBAN ALI VS COMMISSIONER West Pakistan Land Revenue Rules 1968--RULE , ---Rr. 67-A & 67-B---Forcible wrongful dispossession---Provisions of Rr.67-A & 67-B of West Pakistan Land Revenue Rules, 1968---Applicability---Factual controversy---Constitutional petition before High Court---Maintainability---Predecessor-in-interest of petitioners was wrongfully dispossessed from disputed land and Revenue Authorities passed an order in his favour---Respondents, instead of assailing that order before Revenue Authorities, had filed civil suit which was subsequently withdrawn---Later on the respondents filed Constitutional petition before High Court against that order which was allowed and order passed by Revenue Authorities in favour of predecessor-in-interest of petitioners was set aside---Validity---Constitutional petition, in view of factual controversy, was not maintainable---Case not being that of demarcation or eviction of a person in unauthorized possession provisions of Rr.67-A & 67-B of West Pakistan Land Revenue Rules, 1968, were not applicable---Supreme Court converted petition for leave to appeal into appeal and set aside the judgment passed by High Court---