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1982 SCMR 908

Maulvi MUHAMMAD RAMZAN vs MUHAMMAD ISMAIL

Citation1982 SCMR 908
CourtSupreme Court of Pakistan
Case No.Civil Petition for Special Leave to Appeal No. 397 of 1981
Date1981-10-17
Judge(s)Nasim Hasan Shah, Karam Elahi Chauhan
Resultpetition dismissed

ORDER

KARAM ELAHEE CHAUHAN, J.--It is not necessary to go into the lengthy details of this case and it will be sufficient for our purposes to mention that the petitioner as well as the respondent each filed a suit claiming title over the property in dispute which was described more fully in their respective plaint. The suits were disposed of by a common judgment by the learned Civil judge dated 11-3-1971, whereby the suit of the petitioner was decreed whereas the suit of the respondent herein was dismissed.

2. The respondent filed two appeals-(one in each case)-which were disposed of in terms of a statement of the parties wherein they agreed to get the matter settled in favour of Muhammad Ismail, respondent, if he took oath on the Holy Quran that he had not sold the property in dispute to the present petitioner Muhammad Ismail ,respondent took the requisite oath and accordingly his suit was decreed and the suit of the petitioner was dismissed and the two appeals were accordingly disposed of on 2-10-1972. The present petitioner then filed a review which was accepted by the learned Additional District Judge on 10-10-1974. And the main appeals were restored for decision on merits.

3. Muhammad Ismail, respondent filed an appeal being F. A. O. 188/74 which was accepted by the High Court, vide its order dated 2-3-1981 whereby the order of the learned Additional District Judge on 10-10-1974 was set aside and his earlier order dated 2-10-1972 was restored.

4. The petitioner has come up in a petition for special leave to appeal against the last mentioned order to this Court.

5. Learned counsel for the petitioner tried to argue that the appeal of Muhammad Ismail respondent was not maintainable under Order XLI, rule 7; C. P. C. Because the order of the learned Additional District Judge date 10-10-1974 did not suffer from violation of rule 2 or rule 4 of Order XLVII, We do not want to go into this point and leave it open for examination some more appropriate case because in our opinion the order dated 2-10-1974 was based on the consent of both the parties in accordance with which the respondent had duly taken the oath and in this context, we do not feelany jurisdiction to take exception to the same especially when the aforesaid statement had duly been acted upon. For this reason, we do not feel that this is a fit case for examination by this Court inasmuch as the parties bat: themselves settled the matter by a just arrangement and there is no justification to realise them from their aforesaid undertaking, in our discretionary jurisdiction in the matter of granting leave to appeal.

6. The petition for the reasons aforesaid is dismissed.

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