I.A. No.9583 of 2014

This application is filed with a prayer to condone the delay of 190 days in filing the Letters Patent Appeal stating that the delay occurred in the process of taking administrative decision and legal opinion and that there was no lapse or indifference on the part of the Department.

No counter affidavit was filed by the respondent opposing the application.

We are satisfied with the reasons assigned for the belated filing of the Letters Patent Appeal.

The application is, accordingly, ordered, and delay is condoned.

Letters Patent Appeal No.1696 of 2014

This Letters Patent Appeal is preferred against the common order dated 18.02.2014 passed by the learned Single Judge in Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case Nos.22052 and 22072 of 2013.

Both the writ petitions were directed against the order dated 26.02.2013/23.07.2013 passed by the Collector, Siwan-the first appellant herein, cancelling the Jamabandi dated 01.01.1946 in relation to Khata no.9, Survey No.50, of village-Mehandar, P.S. Siwan, District-Siwan, covering an area measuring 16 Katha 19 dhurs.

The plea of the respondent was that the first appellant- Collector, is not empowered to cancel the Jamabandi and Section 9 of