1993 Supreme(Pat) 487
S.B.SINHA, R.N.PRASAD
Umesh Thakur – Appellant
Versus
State of Bihar – Respondent
Advocates Appeared:
CWJC No. 3924/92
For the Petitioner: Mr. Shree Nath Singh, Pawan Kumar, Harendra Prasad Singh & Shashi Kant Singh & Arun Pd. Ambastha
For the State : Mr. Krishna Murari (GPS)
CWJC Nos. 5445, 6561, 8022, 8023 of 1992 For the Petitioner: Mr. S.K. Mishra, Mr. R.K. Sinha No. 2 and Mr. S.S. Nayer Hussain.
CWJC No. 8102 of 1992
For the Petitioner: Mr. Dinesh Kumar Singh & Jitendra Kumar Pandey.
CWJC No. 8381 of 1992
For the Petitioner: Mr. S.K. Mishra & R.K. Sinha No.2
CWJC No. 8438 of 1992
For the Petitioner: Mr. Ravi Ranjan
CWJC No. 8470 of 1992
For the Petitioner: Mr. Ashok Kumar Pandey & Mr. Arvind Nath Pandey
CWJC No. 8487 of 1992
For the Petitioner: Mr. R.K. Sinha No.2, Mr. Reena Chatterjee.
CWJC No. 8488 of 1992
For the Petitioner: Mr. R.K. Sinha No.2 & Mr. Reena Chatterjee
CWJC No 8491 of 1992 & 8500 of 1992
For the Petitioner: Mr. R.K. Sinha No.2 Mr. Renna Chatterjee
CWJC Nos. 8513/92 & 8547/92, 8731 and 9018 of 1992
For the Petitioners: M/s Chittranjan Sinha & Mr. Subodh Kumar, Sanjay Prasad & R.K.
Sinha No.2
CWJC No. 9045 & 9151 of 1992
For the Petitioners: M/s Mahendra Prasad Gupta, Sulendra Prasad Sharma and Md. Anisur Rahman.
CWJC Nos. 9364 & 9395 of 1992
For the Petitioners: M/s R.K. Sinha No.2, Sushil Kumar
CWJC Nos. 9434, 9518 and 9578 of 1992, 9713/92
For the Petitioner: M/s Dinesh Kumar Singh, Sanjay Singh, Ajit Kumar Singh, Mrs. Savita Singh & R.K. Sinha No.2
CWJC Nos. 9759 of 1992
For the Petitioner: Mr. Azfar Hassan & M. Nasrul Huda Khan
CWJC No. 9884 of 1992
For the Petitioner: Mr. Lakshmi Kant Tiwary & Raj Kishore Pd.
CWJC No. 10370 of 1992, 5859/92
For the Petitioner: M/s Ram Chandra Singh, Manoj Kumar Yadav, Jai Prakash Singh & Mr. R.K. Sinha No.2
CWJC No. 7876/92
For the Petitioner: Mr. P. C. Thakur
CWJC No. 2897/93
For the Petitioner: M/s Mritunjay Pd. Singh, Purushottam Kr. Das, Shyam Bahadur Prasad & Kishore Prasad.
In all the cases
For the Respondents:M/s The Advocate General & the Government Advocate Chandra Shekhar (G P. I) Y.P. Sinha - 2 (SC 4) and D.N. Yadav & Renuka Sharma S.C.C.G
For the Petitioner: M/s Ram Chandra Singh, Manoj Kumar Yadav, Jai Prakash Singh & Mr. R.K. Sinha No.2
CWJC No. 7876/92
For the Petitioner: Mr. P. C. Thakur
CWJC No. 2897/93
For the Petitioner: M/s Mritunjay Pd. Singh, Purushottam Kr. Das, Shyam Bahadur Prasad & Kishore Prasad.
In all the cases
For the Respondents:M/s The Advocate General & the Government Advocate Chandra Shekhar (G P. I) Y.P. Sinha - 2 (SC 4) and D.N. Yadav & Renuka Sharma S.C.C.G
S.B. Sinha, J.
In all these writ applications, petitioners have questioned the vires of Section 47A of the Indian Stamp Act (hereinafter called and referred for the sake of brevity as the said Act) as amended by the Bihar Act, 18 of 1988 which was subsequently amended by Bihar Amendment Act, 1991 as also the Rules flamed by the State of Bihar known as Bihar Instrument Valuation Rules, 1991, published in the Bihar Gazette dated 27.12.1991 The petitioners have also questioned the respective orders passed by different registering authorities whereby and whereunder he refused to register the instruments presented to him, Inter alia, on the ground that the valuation mentioned therein does not reflect the market value of the property which are the subject matter of the transaction in question.
2. In view of the pure question of law involved in these writ applications, it is not necessary to state the fact of the matters in details.
Suffice it to say that the writ petitioners intended to transfer their right, title and interest in favour of third parties.
3. In most of the writ petitions, the petitioners presented deeds of sale before the concerned registering authorities but the said author
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