MUHAMMAD JAMIL KHAN and 3 others vs ADDITIONAL COMMISSIONER
This matter arises from a petition for leave to appeal before the Supreme Court of Pakistan, concerning the status of the petitioners as informers under land settlement laws. The core legal question is whether the petitioners or any of them could be treated as an informer within the meaning of the relevant statutory provision on the given facts. The Court held that since leave to appeal had already been granted in connected civil petitions raising the identical question, leave to appeal should likewise be granted in the present petitions. The Court ordered that all the resulting appeals be heard together. The key principle laid down is that matters involving identical questions of law regarding statutory interpretations of informer status under settlement laws ought to be consolidated and heard together upon the grant of leave to appeal.
- Whether the petitioners or any one of them could be treated as an informer within the meaning of section 14(1A), Displaced Persons (Land Settlement) Act 1958?
- Section 14(1A), Displaced Persons (Land Settlement) Act 1958
ORDER
1. SAAD SAOOD JAN, J.---It is stated that leave has already been granted from the judgment of the High Court in Civil Petitions Nos. 624-L/1992, 625-L/1992, 842-L/1992, 843-L/1992 and 911-L/1992, to consider the question whether on the facts of the case the petitioners or any one of them could be treated as informer within the meaning of section 14(1A), Displaced Persons (Land Settlement) Act, 1958. This being so, leave to appeal is also granted in these two petitions. All the appeals should be heard together.