The Lahore High Court while issuing stay order directed the respondent government officials not to disturb petitioners Allah Ditta and others of Head Marala and abstain them from causing damage to their crops.
The petitioners contended that they were resident of Jammu and Kashmir and the respondent government had allotted land to them in Munwarpur in 1956. In 1971, the same land was allotted to Wapda. The petitioners approached the court, which disposed of the petition after undertaking from the respondent government that Wapda will not disturb them if they pay 10 percent of their lease amount to Wapda.
The Punjab governor now allotted the same land to Wildlife Department for construction of a park and the petitioners have been asked to vacate the land.
The petitioner through their Counsel M.D. Tahir assailed the notification and contended that the respondent government neither informed the petitioners nor Wapda and allotted the land to Wildlife Department, which was illegal, unconstitutional and discriminatory.
He, therefore, prayed to the court to declare the notification as illegal and issued without lawful authority.
The court, after hearing the petitioner counsel at length, admitted the petition for regular hearing and issued stay order.
BENCHES FOR NEXT WEEK: As many as nine division benches and 21 single benches will work at the principal seat of the Lahore High Court (LHC) during the week commencing from October 11.
According to a notification, LHC division benches are headed by Justice Chaudhry Ijaz Ahmed, Justice Syed Jamshed Ali, Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif, Justice Mian Muhammad Najum-uz-Zaman, Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, Justice Ali Nawaz Chohan, Justice Nasim Sikandar, and Justice Shaikh Abdul Rashid.
The single benches are comprised Chief Justice Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry, Justice Chaudhry Ijaz Ahmed, Justice Syed Jamshed Ali, Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif, Justice Sayed Zahid Hussain, Justice Mian Muhammad Najamuz Zaman, Justice Mian Saqib Nisar, Justice Asif Saeed Khosa, Justice Bashir A. Mujahid, Justice Muhammad Akhtar Shabbir, Justice Ali Nawaz Chohan, Justice Nasim Sikandar, Justice Tanvir Bashir Ansari, Justice Sayeed Akhtar, Justice Muhammad Sair Ali, Justice Mian Hamid Farooq, Justice Rustam Ali Malik, Justice Shaikh Abdul Rashid, Justice Sardar Muhammad Aslam, Justice Muhammad Bilal Khan, and Justice Ch. Iftikhar Hussain.