ORDER :

I.A. No. 5996 of 2020

1. This interlocutory application has been filed seeking condonation of delay of 14 days in filing the present Letters Patent Appeal.

2. Having considered the cause shown by the appellants, we are inclined to condone the delay of 14 days in filing the present Letters Patent Appeal and, accordingly, I.A. No. 5996 of 2020 is allowed.

L.P.A. No. 443 of 2019

3. Abdul Hamid @ Bartu Mian resident of village Uperlotto within PS and district Latehar (respondent no. 4 herein) moved this Court in W.P. (C) No. 759 of 2016 to challenge the revisional order dated 20th July 2015 passed in Land Ceiling Revision Case No. 28 of 2011 by which the orders passed in his favor allowing the application under section 16(3) of the Bihar Land Reforms (Fixation of Ceiling Area and Acquisition of Surplus Land) Act, 1961 (in short Act of 1961) have been set-aside.

4. The writ Court by an order dated 15th February 2019 allowed the writ petition and interfered with the revisional order on the basis of the judgment in Radhe Sharma vs. State of Bihar through District Magistrate and Others, 2009 (4) PLJR 423 to hold that the provisions under Rule 19(3) of Bihar Land Reforms (Fixation of Ceil