MUNIR A. SHEIKH, J. -- This petition is directed against the judgment dated 9.5.2001 of the Lahore High Court, Bahawalpur Bench through which revision petition filed by the petitioners has been dismissed.
2. Respondents Nos. 1 to 7 filed suit against the petitioners and other respondents for declaration that entries in the revenue record in favour of the predecessor-in-interest of the petitioners of ownership were wrong and that they were the owners of the land. Defence plea of the petitioners in the written statement was the predecessor-in-interest of the plaintiffs namely Saphi had gifted, the property to the forefather of the petitioners who was his Peer, therefore, they were the owners of the land. During the pendency of the suit, however, an application was made by the petitioners seeking permission for amendment of the written statement to take a plea that in fact, in the year 1888, the predecessor-ininterest of the plaintiffs had sold the land in dispute to the predecessor-in-interest of the petitioners, therefore, they were the owners of the same by virtue of the sale. Reliance was placed on the entry of a deed which was allegedly registered in the office of the Sub-Registrar in the concerned register. There is nothing in the application as to the proper custody of the original document.
3. The Trial Court through order dated 3.2.2001 dismissed the application on the ground that the petitioners wanted to take a contradictory plea which could not be allowed to be taken. Revision petition filed by the petitioners against the said order has been dismissed by the learned Judge in Chamber of the Lahore High Court through the impugned judgment dated 9.5.2001, against which leave is sought.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioners has not been able to satisfy us that the impugned orders passed by the Courts below are not in accordance with the law declared by the superior Courts as regards amendment of the pleadings, therefore, the same do not suffer from any legal infirmity. 5. .
For the foregoing reasons, this petition has no merits which is accordingly dismissed and .