Malik ZAFAR ALI vs Malik KHALID AZIZ And Other

This matter concerns a petition for leave to appeal against an order of the Lahore High Court, which had upheld an ejectment order against the petitioner based on the reconstruction of a property. The core legal question was whether a sanctioned plan from a Municipal Committee, relied upon to justify ejectment, required formal proof or if the courts below erred in dispensing with the standard mode of proof for such a document. The Supreme Court dismissed the petition, holding that a plan duly sanctioned by a Municipal Committee constitutes a public document. Consequently, the Court affirmed that such a document is deemed genuine unless proven otherwise, and there is no legal bar to dispensing with the formal mode of proof for such public records. The decision reinforces the principle that public documents, such as sanctioned municipal plans, carry a presumption of genuineness, thereby streamlining evidentiary requirements in ejectment proceedings where such documents are central to the claim of reconstruction.