ORDER :

W.P.(C) No. 2016 of 2021

W.P.(C) No. 2016 of 2021 has been preferred for quashing the order dated 25.02.2021 passed by the Deputy Commissioner, Ranchi (the respondent no. 2) whereby direction has been issued to the Circle Officer, Hehal Circle, Ranchi to cancel the jamabandi running in the names of ancestors of the petitioners being the recorded raiyats of the land appertaining to Khata No. 140, plot Nos. 1323, 1324, 1333, 1334, 1338 and 1337/1349 measuring an area of 7.16 acres out of total area measuring 10.88 acres of village Bajra, Thana No. 140, District - Ranchi (hereinafter to be referred as the said land) with a further direction to open the jamabandi of the said land in the name of the respondent no.5.

2. The factual background of the case of the petitioners of W.P.(C) No. 2016 of 2021 as stated in the said writ petition is that the said land is recorded in the R.S. Record of Rights as ‘Bakast Malik’ under Khewat No.-6/2 standing in the name of Sitaram Sahu and Thakur Dayal Sahu sons of Man Govind Sahu of Village Argora, Ranchi who were the ancestors of the petitioners. After vesting of Zamindari, jamabandi of the said land was opened in the name of the recorded tenan