Punjab Protection of Ownership of Immoveable Property Ordinance, 2025. The Dispute Resolution Committee (DRC) is a pre-adjudicatory, fact-finding and facilitative body and has no jurisdiction to order eviction, dispossession, or restoration of possession.Coercive or executory measures affecting possession can only be undertaken by the Tribunal under Sections 16 and 17 of the Ordinance. Preventive powers under Section 9 are limited, temporary, and must be exercised through written, reasoned orders after hearing the parties. While exercising powers under Section 9, the DRC must strictly adhere to any subsisting status-quo order of a competent court, and shall not pass any preventive order in conflict therewith. Any oral or coercive direction by the DRC or its members is without lawful authority and violative of due process of law.
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