The Lahore Excessive Courtroom (LHC) has stopped authorities from continuing with the public sale of outlets owned or occupied by petitioners in Jaranwala and summoned the Deputy Commissioner (DC) Faisalabad in individual.
A divisional bench comprising Justice Waqar Haider Awan and Justice Javed Iqbal Wains issued the instructions whereas listening to an intra-court attraction filed by 40 shopkeepers towards a single-bench determination in Writ Petition No. 44001/2025.
By their counsel, Ch Shoaib Saleem, Advocate, the shopkeepers challenged a consolidated judgment that had disposed of their petition together with 92 different circumstances involving possession and lease rights over state and native authorities properties.
The appellants instructed the courtroom that their case was distinct from the opposite petitions as a result of they held written lease agreements executed in December 2023 after approval by the District Evaluation Committee. They mentioned they’d additionally accepted revised rents, which had been subsequently collected by the Municipal Company Jaranwala.
Through the listening to, Justice Javed Iqbal Wains questioned how the outlets could possibly be put up for public sale whereas the petitioners’ written arguments relating to their rights had been nonetheless pending earlier than the courtroom.
The decide additionally requested the federal government’s regulation officer to elucidate the federal government’s place on the matter.
The bench directed that the involved deputy commissioner’s place be offered earlier than the courtroom and subsequently summoned the DC Faisalabad in individual.
The petitioners’ counsel argued that auctioning outlets already leased to the appellants was illegal and opposite to Part 94 of the Punjab Native Authorities Act, 2022, and the Punjab Native Authorities (Property) Guidelines, 2008.
The attraction maintained that the written lease agreements remained legitimate and that the petitioners couldn’t be dispossessed by an public sale whereas these agreements had been nonetheless in drive.
The appellants have requested the excessive courtroom to put aside the only bench judgment insofar because it considerations their case and settle for their unique writ petition. They’ve additionally sought an order stopping the respondents from taking coercive measures towards them whereas the intra-court attraction stays pending.
In a separate improvement, Justice Ahmad Nadeem Arshad of the LHC additionally stayed public sale proceedings involving a number of different Jaranwala shopkeepers who had challenged a call of the Member Colonies of the Punjab Board of Income.
The petitioners in these circumstances had been additionally represented by Ch Shoaib Saleem Advocate.
A number of different writ petitions had been filed by shopkeepers from completely different tehsils of Faisalabad. The circumstances had been later clubbed collectively, with interim aid subsequently granted to the petitioners.
