' FAZAL ILAHI KHAN, J.---These three petitions for leave to appeal are directed against the judgment of Lahore High Court, Rawalpindi Bench, Rawalpindi dated 22-6-1994 passed in Civil Revision Petitions Nos. 356, 357 and 358 of 1985 involving identical, factual and legal questions.
2. Petitioners in these three cases purchased agricultural land through separate sale-deeds.
Respondent asserting his superior right of pre-emption pre-empted the sale through three separate suits. Petitioners while contesting the suits stated that they had orally purchased the suit land in the year 1976 and had obtained possession under the sale on payment of sale consideration; that the possession of the land was handed over to one Sadiq son of Wali Muhammad through an agreement deed, dated 5th March, 1977 and thereafter raised construction over a portion of the suit land as such the suits filed on 55-1980 were barred by time. That the subsequent sale-deed was merely confirmation of the earlier sale as the sale consideration had already been paid at the time when oral sale took place.
3. After recording the evidence of the parties the plaintiff/respondent's suits were decreed and the petitioners/plaintiffs appeals and revisions both have been dismissed. Leave to appeal is prayed for against the judgment of the learned High Court.
4. We have heard the learned counsel and have gone through the record. It was contended that the Courts below have misread the evidence and have ignored the material oral and documentary evidence of delivery of possession of land under the sale and the document, dated 5th March, 1977 which was found to be genuine by comparison of thumb-impression of the executant (tenant) by the Finger Print Expert has been discarded for no cogent reasons. The Khasra Girdawari further supported the delivery of possession. That the findings are based on surmises and conjectures having no basis in the evidence. That the established principle of preponderance of evidence in deciding the civil cases has been ignored. Leave is accordingly granted to consider the above contentions.