Defence Housing Authority are on commercial basis earning

The notification under section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act 1894 in favour of Army Welfare Housing Society was declared as null and void on the ground that the AWHS is not meant for ‘public purpose’. The learned Single Bench of Lahore High Court has held (at p. 163): …housing schemes being launched under the banner of Defence Housing Authority are on commercial basis earning a lot of profit therefrom, therefore, these cannot be said a ‘public purpose’.

2013 CLC 158