LAHORE, Jan 19: A bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday proposed amendments to the Illegal Dispossession Act 2005 and asked the federal law ministry to examine flaws in the law.

Stating that an identical law, Andhra Pradesh Land Grabbing (Prohibition) Act 1982 which is in vogue in India, is a comprehensive piece of legislation, the court asked the ministry to examine it for the purpose of amending the Illegal Dispossession Act 2005.

The court also directed sessions courts in the province to examine and dismiss all complaints pending before them where no land grabber was involved.

It excluded certain cases from the scope of the act, saying that cases of disputes over possession of immovable properties between co-owners and co-sharers, landlords and tenants, person claiming possession on the basis of inheritance, person vying for possession on the basis of competing title documents, contractual agreements or revenue record or cases with a background of an ongoing private dispute over the relevant property could not be entertained by the sessions courts under the law.

It gave a 16-page judgment on an appeal filed against the order of a Gujranwala subordinate court where the court had awarded five-year imprisonment each to Zahoor Ahmad and five others.