EAST PAKISTAN HIGH COURT RULES


EAST PAKISTAN HIGH COURT RULES

 

Rules 7 and 9

Addition of party
Addition of party in a writ petition — Whether a tenant allotted in possession
of a property should be impleaded as respondent in a writ petition challenging
taking over of the property as abandonment property and praying for restoration
of possession — The Court may while hearing a writ petition or even before such
hearing order a person to be added as a party to the writ petition — The
discretion to add a person as a party is that of the Court — The Court alone is
to decide whether it is necessary to add some person as a party to the
proceeding — When a tenant has seen in occupation of the property since before
the property was included in the use of abandoned properties it is to be
decided whether he would he ordered to be evicted from the premises after the
property is declared to be not abandoned property and as such discretion exercised
by the Court in adding him as a party cannot be disturbed — But an allottee
inducted by the Government cannot continue in the premises as allottee of the
Government after the property is declared not to be an abandoned property and
as such the allottee cannot be made a party in the proc ceding.

Md. Ayub Vs. Bangladesh
and others; 7BLD(AD)243

Ref: A.l.R.l954(Cal)208; A.I.R.1957(SC) 351:A.I.R. I
963(SC)780;34DLR(AD)35:  713LD (Al)) 121:
AIR. I 963(SC)786.