Intra court appeal: 17-year-old case adjourned once again

Appeal seeks cancellation of plots allotted to 28 LHC judges.


Express September 28, 2011

LAHORE:


A division bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday adjourned till November 2, a 17-year-old case seeking cancellation of residential plots allotted to 28 judges of the LHC during Nawaz Sharif’s tenure as prime minister.


On Tuesday no one appeared on behalf of Lahore Development Authority (LDA) despite the fact that an LDA representative on the last hearing had sought time to place the complete record before the court.

The bench, comprising Justices Muhammad Khalid Mehmood Khan and Syed Kazim Raza Shamsi, is hearing an intra court appeal (ICA) against the decision of single bench. The case was filed by a lawyer, Saiful Haq Zayee in 1993 and a single bench had dismissed it in 1994. He challenged that order through an ICA which was never heard after 2002.

The petitioner said that the allotment was unlawful as the procedure laid down in LDA rules was not followed.

He said that under the rules, plots could only be allotted to the judges who did not have any residential plot. To this end the judges had to furnish affidavits, he said.

The petitioner prayed the court to set aside the order of the single bench and cancel the plots allotted to the judges.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 28th, 2011.

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