The present writ petition has been filed for issuance of a writ in the nature of certiorari or any other appropriate writ, order or direction for quashing the order dated 6.5.2002 passed by the Commissioner, Dhanbad in Dhanbad C.N.T. Appeal No. 140 of 1994 as also the order dated 6.10.1994, passed by the Charge Officer, Dhanbad in Janch Badar Case No. 6 of 1994.

2. The facts, in brief, as stated by the petitioner are that one Shiv Kumar Pandey granted settlement of a total area of 10 acres of land in Plot No. 667 (9 acres) and Plot No. 1061 (1 acre) both under Khata No. 170 by terms of a Hukumnama in favour of the petitioner, Sulochana Devi, and, accordingly, she became her Raiyat and came in possession of the settled land. It has also been submitted that in exercise of her rights as Raiyat, she continued in occupation on payment of rent against the grant of rent receipts to the Ex-landlord and also converted the settled land and made the same cultivable into Dhan Khet-I, II and III.

3. The Ex-landlord was also paid compensation in lieu of vesting of estate in respect of his Khewat interest, including the land settled with the petitioner in Compensation Case No. 5865 of 1956-