December 18, 2002	Wednesday	Shawwal 13, 1423

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ISLAMABAD, Dec 17: The Supreme Court on Tuesday reserved its judgment on the claims regarding the land under Miani Saheb graveyard in Lahore.

The SC bench, comprising Chief Justice Shaikh Riaz Ahmad, Justice Mian Mohammad Ajmal and Justice Mohammad Nawaz Abbasi, after hearing the counsels from both the parties reserved the judgment.

Arguing on behalf of the petitioners, three Lashari brothers, Advocate Munir Paracha argued that the management committee of the graveyard had encroached the private land of his clients by six kanals.

The Board of Revenue on an earlier complaint from them had prepared mutations of about a parcel of 15 kanals of land and held that six kanals belonged to the Lashari brothers, but despite various courses adopted by the appellants, including a writ petition before the Lahore High Court, the land had not been restored to them.

Advocate Maqbul Siddique, representing the management committee, rejected the claim and said that the so called mutation deed had not been found valid even by the LHC from which they had sought relief under its writ jurisdiction.

The counsel argued that the Lahore deputy commissioner, under the preservation and maintenance of graveyard laws, enacted in 1958, was the chairman of the managing committee and when the first case was made out by the Lashari brothers on the land, one of their brothers was in the office of the deputy commissioner, and at present the same person, he argued, was among the petitioners.