N.N. Tiwari, J.

1. The petitioners in this writ application, have prayed for quashing the order dated 19.8.2003, passed in Misc. Revision Case No. 59 of 1995 by the Commissioner North Chhotanagpur Division, Hazaribagh, whereby the Commissioner has directed for cancellation of Jamabandi of the petitioners and instead to issue a Vasgeet Parcha.

2. The petitioners case is that they are by caste 'Uraon' and the members of Scheduled Tribes and they are residents of Ranchi district and they migrated to Hazaribagh long back in the year 1915. The petitioners got settlement of land of Plot No. 1458/1172 appertaining to Khata No. 45, Village Khodaahar measuring an area 1520 acres from the ex-landlord in the year 1945. After the said settlement, the petitioners ancestors reclaimed the lands and had been cultivating the same. They had converted 'tarn' lands into paddy growing lands by dint of their labour and on investment of considerable amount through the years. The petitioners had been paying rent by the ex-landlord in respect of the said land. Their names were also mutated by the Anchal office and they had been paying rent to the State. In the meanwhile, in the year 19.1.71, the name of