U.N. Sinha, J.

This application has been filed by the petitioner under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution of India praying that the proceedings of L.E.R. Case No. 33 of 1963-64 in the Court of the Deputy Collector Incharge, Land Reforms, Pakur, in the district of Santhal Parganas, which was instituted on a report made by the Sub-divisional Officer, P.W.D. Pakur on the 17th February, 1964 (Annexure G) may be quashed. The further prayer is to the effect that two ORDER :s passed in that case, on the 6th September, 1966, by the Additional Collector, Santhal Parganas, and on the 30th June, 1967 by the Commissioner of Bhagalpur Division against the petitioner may be quashed and cancelled.

2. The relevant facts are as follows: It is stated in the application that in 1945 the petitioner had purchased a pucca residential house at Pakur, situated on plot no. 1903 along with the land and to the south of this plot of land there is a road bearing plot no. 1865. In the proceeding in question the road has been described as Litipara-Pakur Road. It is stated that in 1957 there was a proceeding under the Bihar Public Land Encroachment Act, 1956 (Bihar Act XV of 1956) on a report filed