1. ' JAVID IQBAL, J.--This petition for leave is directed against order of the Lahore High Court, Lahore dated 4th November, 1984 whereby writ petition of the petitioners was dismissed.
2. ' Birefly the facts are that the petitioners were granted lease of the disputed land for temoporary cultivation only for one crop i.e, Rabi 1972. It was not extended but the petitioners remained in possession of the said land unauthorisedly. Thereafter in 1983 taking advantage of the unauthorised possession they applied for the grant of proprietary rights under notifications issued in 1979 and 1983. But the land was granted to respondent No,3 by the Revenue authorities. The petitioners' case was that while their application for the grant of proprietary rights was pending the land had been illegally allotted to respondent No,3. Since their claim was rejected by the Revenue authorities, they challenged in the High Court the orders of grant of the said land to respondent No,3 under the Gallantly Award Scheme, but their writ petition was dismissed as stated above.
3. Hence the present petition.
4. ' Learned counsel for the petitioners attempted to argue before us that the petitioners were entitled to the grant of proprietary rights under the aforesaid notifications and while their application for the same was pending the disputed land should have not been granted to respondent No,3 without any notice to the petitioners.
5. This argument of the learned counsel has no merit because the petitioners' possession after the expiry of the lease, from 1972 to 1983, was unauthorised and therefore they could not claim the grant of proprietary rights under the aforesaid notifications on the basis of this nature of possession. The High Court therefore was correct to arrive at the conclusion that the lease did not subsist in favour of the petitioners since 1972 and therefore if the land was granted under a permanent scheme to respondent No,3, the petitioners had no locus standi to challenge the same.
6. Since this is the position no interference is called for. The petition is therefore dismissed.