' FAQIR MUHAMMAD KHOKHAR, J.--- The petitioner filed an application for the execution of decree dated 8-3-1997 on 14-10-2000 which was dismissed, as barred by time, by order dated 15-6-2001, passed by the Additional District Judge, Jhang. The F.A.O. No,181 of 2001 of the petitioner was also dismissed by a learned Single Judge of the Lahore High Court, Lahore vide impugned order, dated 19-6-2002. Hence this petition for leave to appeal.
2. The learned counsel for the petitioners argued that the execution of the decree passed in favour of the petitioners ought not have been refused merely on a technical point of limitation and that even otherwise, the period of limitation for such-like applications was six years and not three years as provided by section 48, C.P.C.
3. We have heard the learned counsel for the petitioner at some length and have also perused the available record. We find that the controversy involved in the present case has already been set at rest by this Court in the case of Mahboob Khan v. Hassan Khan Durrani PLD 1990 SC 778, wherein it was held that for making first application for execution of a decree a period of three years was provided in terms of Article 181 of the Limitation Act and that the provisions of section 48, C.P.C.
Could be availed only in the case of fresh application, once the first application had been disposed of. In our view, the impugned order of the High Court is in conformity with the law laid down by this Court to which no exception can be taken.
4. For the foregoing reasons, we do not find any merit in this petition which is dismissed and leave to, appeal is refused accordingly.