' TASSADUQ HUSSAIN JILLANI, J.---Seeks leave to appeal against the concurrent judgments and decrees i,e, the judgment and decree dated 1-10-2001 passed by the learned Civil Judge Minchinabad whereby respondents' suit for specific performance was decreed and that of learned Additional District Judge, Bahawalnagar dated 14-1-2004 vide which the afore-referred judgment and decree was affirmed and petitioner's appeal was dismissed.
2. Learned counsel for the petitioner seeks leave on the ground that petitioner is a bona fide purchaser without notice and the suit for specific performance could not have been decreed; that both the courts have not adverted to this point and that the judgments and decrees are not sustainable.
3. We have heard learned counsel for the petitioner at some length. Learned counsel for the petitioner has not denied on court query that the suit for specific performance qua the suit property was filed in the year 1992 whereas petitioner has purchased the said property in the year 1993. Having considered the evidence led, we are of the view that petitioner's case is hit by the principle of lis pendence and the law laid down by this Court in Muhammad Ashraf Butt v.
Muhammad Asif Bhatti (PLD 2007 SC 905) would squarely apply to uphold the judgments and decrees. The same therefore, are unexceptionable. Finding no merit in this petition, it is dismissed and leave refused.