ABDUR REHMAN KHAN, J.---Suit for possession through preemption filed by the petitioner/plaintiff was dismissed by the learned trial Court for his failure to make 'Talab-e-Muwathibat' in accordance with the mode prescribed under the law and that judgment was confirmed by the Appellate Court and also by the High Court in Revision through the impugned judgment dated 30- 4-1999. This petition has been moved to challenge the legality of unanimous judgments of all the Courts.
2. The learned Judge in the High Court although conscious of the limited scope of interference in Revision with the concurrent finding of the lower Courts still undertook the exercise of analysing the evidence as is clear from the following paragraph: "Though the learned Courts below have concurrently decided Issue No,2 (a pure question of fact) against the petitioner yet in order to satisfy myself, with the assistance of the learned counsel for the petitioner, I have gone through the evidence available on the file and found that the finding of the learned Courts below on this issue has been recorded on a valid appreciation of law and facts.
I would like to refer to some relevant portion of statement of petitioner (P.W.1)." Thereafter he has referred to the relevant portions of evidence and has commented upon them.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner did not contest the delay in making 'Talab-e-Muwathibat' as held by the lower Courts but according to him the delay was hardly of four hours and not of 2-3 days, therefore, it was condonable. This argument is misconceived. The requirement of law is that 'Talab-e-Muwathibat' is to be made immediately in the sitting or meeting in which the prospective pre-emptor has come to know of the sale which he intends to pre-empt. Therefore, if a pre-emptor fails to make 'Talab-e-Muwathibat' in the prescribed manner then the suit is liable to be dismissed irrespective of the fact that he made such 'Talab' after one hour or one day of the sitting or meeting in which he had known about the sale. There is no merit in this petition which is, accordingly, dismissed and leave is refused.