1. ' This is a petition for readmission of the appeal brought by the Utility Stores Corporation against Gulzar Ahmad, dismissed in default on 28th December, 1980. The petition for readmission for the appellant was filed on 12th January, 1981. The only ground given in the petition is that the learned counsel for the petitioner had inadvertently noted down the next date of hearing of the appeal in his diary as 10th January, 1981 instead of 20th December, 1980 and thus was prevented from appearing in the appeal on the date actually fixed in the appeal. The application is supported by an affidavit but the affidavit is not of the lawyer who is alleged to have inadvertently noted down the date in his diary as 10th January, 1981. Even the diary in which the date is alleged to have been wrongly entered has not been produced by way of evidence. The date previous to 20th December, 1980 was 27th September, 1980 and on the said date the presence of Mr. Bashir Ahmad Advocate only counsel for the appellant is recorded meaning that the person who gave the affidavit was not present on the said date, therefore, he could not have the knowledge that the date had been inadvertently recorded wrongly in the diary. I, therefore, cannot accept and act upon the said affidavit. It does not stand proved that in reality the learned counsel for the petitioner had wrongly noted down the date in his diary and thus was prevented from appearing on 20th December, 1980.
2. No cogent ground proved for the readmission of the appeal. The petition for readmission, therefore, is dismissed.