JUDGMENT :

The present writ petition has been filed for quashing order dated 10.04.2019 (Annexure-7 to the writ petition) passed by the Deputy Commissioner, East Singhbhum, Jamshedpur (the respondent no. 4) in Jamabandi Cancellation Proceeding No. 02 of 2017-18 in purported exercise of power conferred under Section 4(h) of the Bihar (now Jharkhand) Land Reforms Act, 1950 (in short, “the Act, 1950”) whereby Jamabandi of the land appertaining to R.S Khata No. 383, Plot Nos. 1642, 1643, 1644, 327, 376, 378, 510, 1326, Village Dighi, P.S.- Patamda, District East Singhbhum measuring total area of 14.10. acres running in the name of petitioner’s father and other co-sharers, has been cancelled.

2. During pendency of the present writ petition, an interlocutory application being I. A No. 6769 of 2019 was filed by the applicants, namely, Khagendra Nath Mahato, Satish Mahato, Bibhuti Bhushan Mahato and Rajendra Mahato seeking impleadment as petitioners in the present writ petition claiming themselves to be the successors of co-sharers of the petitioner. However, vide order dated 08.02.2022, the said application was dismissed by this Court on the ground that interveners could not be given status