' SH. IJAZ NISAR, J.---Leave is sought against the order dated 7-10-1996 passed by the Lahore High Court, Lahore, dismissing the writ petition of Muhammad Aslam petitioner.
2. The relevant facts are that an application was filed before A.C. Chiniot alleging that the land measuring 36 Kanals forming subject of Chowkidari grant was in illegal possession of the petitioner. An inquiry was held and the allegations were found to be correct. The A.C. Chiniot directed that the crop sown in the land in question be given on Superdari to somebody and if no one was prepared to take the same the Girdawar, should take over it. The petitioner challenged the said order before the Additional Commissioner (Revenue), which was dismissed with the direction that if the petitioner failed to give share to the Mueens the same may be distributed in accordance with law and that the possession of land be also restored to the Mueens by resorting to section 32/34 of Colonization of the Government Act, 1912. Thereafter, the petitioner filed a revision in the Board of Revenue Punjab, which was dismissed. Dissatisfied with the aforesaid orders, he filed a writ petition in the High Court, which too was dismissed. Hence, this petition.
3. The High Court observed that since in the Khasra Girdawari the petitioner had been shown as an illegal occupant of the land in dispute, he was, therefore, not entitled to any relief in the equitable and discretionary jurisdiction of the Court.
4. It is contended that there has been a gross misreading of the revenue papers and that proper opportunity of hearing was not afforded to the petitioner to establish his claim.
5. It is clearly mentioned in the Khasra Girdawari relied upon by the petitioner that he was an illegal occupant of the land in question. As he had failed to show his legal claim on that piece of land, he was rightly not considered entitled to the discretionary relief. Finding no infirmity in the impugned order we dismiss the petition.