JUDGMENT :

RAJESH SHANKAR, J.

1. The case is taken up through Video Conferencing.

2. At the request of Mr. Rajeeva Sharma, learned Senior Counsel for the petitioner, the Commissioner, North Chotanagpur Division, Hazaribagh is permitted to be impleaded as the respondent No. 5 in the present writ petition.

3. Considering the present pandemic situation, the office is directed to make necessary insertion in the cause title of the present writ petition.

4. The present writ petition has been filed for quashing the order dated 27.11.2020 (Annexure-2 to the writ petition) passed by the respondent No. 2 in Misc. Case No. 07/2017-18 whereby the said respondent has arbitrarily and illegally cancelled the Jamabandi of the land appertaining to Khata No. 34, Plot Nos. 111, 358, 362, 568, 572 and 573, Mouza-Kisutanr, Thana No. 205, District Giridih, measuring an area of 1.46 Acres running in the name of the petitioner’s grandmother (Sohni Devi).

5. Mr. Ankit Kumar, learned AC to SC (Mines)-I appearing on behalf of the respondents, submits that the petitioner has got alternative/efficacious/statutory remedy of preferring appeal before the respondent No. 5 against the impugned order dated 27.11.2020 passed by the respondent No. 2 under proviso to Section 4(h) of the Bihar Land Reforms Act, 1950 [hereinafter referred to as ‘the Act 1950’]. Hence, the present writ petition is not maintainable at this stage.

6. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and keeping in view that the petitioner has got alternative/efficacious/statutory remedy of preferring appeal before the respondent No. 5 against the impugned order dated 27.11.2020 passed by the respondent No. 2, the present writ petition is not maintainable at this stage.

7. The present writ petition is accordingly dismissed as not maintainable.

8. The petitioner is however at liberty to take appropriate recourse against the impugned order dated 27.11.2020 as provided under the Act, 1950.