The Point is, your grand father is not innocent, he went for the land which was not in market ( in terms of money and offer) and he might have been offered less price then the land which has no problem.
My Uncle and Father use to be in Land development business and this is an established fact that the more the strings/problems/NOCs attached to particular piece of land the lower the price is, so what happened to him is normally happens to anyone who tries to act smart and later get booked by even smarter person.
83 kanals is roughly 7 acres ( if i am not wrong) and if the land is in the subrubs of the city and that is on ferouzpur road on the Lahore side , then it is one expensive piece of land, if the land is for agriculture purposes and is irrigated through the canal, then again it is expensive piece.
Now your grand father have told you another story as well
1st of all no one ask this much low bribe, it is against their standards, specially if nothing was wrong with yoru Grand Pa... 2ndly he could have gone to the higher authorities rightaway and presented his case, the doctor might have faced court martial as the corruption on this level in army is well handled but i guess your grand pa simply decided to give up and join Railways which is BTW one of the most corrupt institution in Pakistan and requires a huge bribes to even get a job of Peon...
Anyway, ask your grand pa one more thing, is the land 83 of kanals, is registered to his name and has the transfer of the ownership has done or not? Most importantly, in case of military land, the land can be purchased from the person to whom the land is allocated, who gets a land allocation paper... can your grand pa comeup with such paper, ( this paper is initially required to file a applicatin for NOC from GHQ) if you have got hold of those papers then you have a strong case
- i appreciate your comments but we are not belong to corrupted or greedy family. the land was on sale legally , my grandfather 's cousin bought the land who happened to be his best friend so he told him that after you retired you can buy land by my land and we will do some business on it .so when my grandfather got retired,he bought the land from army office who was given 205 kanal of land in our town in 1969. he was a legal owner and we payed him right amount of money to buy his 83 kanal.
- yes the registry is on my grandfathers name and yes we do have N.O.C from headquarters of army that we can buy this land . it was issued in 1982 from Rawalpindi . 3 . the thing is army has canceled that 83 kanal of land from the name of the officer we bought the land from. now they say that we are criminal and did something wrong and got that land somehow.so the N.O.C is cancel too. under the law of 1973 , protecting property rights of the petitioner , can not be taken away by a condition of sanction/No Objection Certificate which was granted by General Headquarters in this case. i mean honestly how low they can fall for a piece of land . and they close the case in hight court without us knowing it .we just got letter that we don't own this land now.
and to your first objection 15 pound was a big money in 1948 and 1949 .and no he didn't pay any bribe in railway, but they told him that you are very educated you should go to somewhere better place . he got first position in materic (year 10) in whole Punjab. and the reason he didn't complain about that doctor because he had four younger sister and he needed job to marry them off ,in other words he doesn't wanted to waste money on courts and to make enemy because he was the only son in family at that time.
and other thing is that in 1947 my grandfather was working part time at a clothes shop which was owned by a hindu ,so when he was migrating to India he said you can have this shop but my grandfather said no its for people who gona come from India they deser it not me. but the other worker took it and now he has bangla with imran khan 's house ,its famous as Kalma wali khoti.
i mean i f my grandfather was a criminal or greedy type of person he would have taken benefit from many situations but he didn't . he says my Imaan is my everything.
and i think the lest he deserve is his land back.