Gurvinder Singh vs State of Punjab - 2023 Supreme(P&H) 2246

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2023 Supreme(P&H) 2246

SURESHWAR THAKUR, KULDEEP TIWARI
Gurvinder Singh – Appellant
Versus
State of Punjab – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioners:Mr. Ish Puneet Singh, Advocate.
For the Respondents: Mr. Karanjit Singh, Addl. A.G., Punjab.
For the Respondent No. 4/Gram Panchayat:Mr. Nakul Sharma, Advocate.

JUDGMENT

Sureshwar Thakur, J.

Since both the petitions arise from a common order, made by the Appellate Authority concerned, and, as becomes embodied in Annexure P-6, therefore, both the petitions are amenable to become decided through a common verdict becoming made thereons.

Factual Background

2. The Gram Panchayat village Randhawa, instituted a petition under Section 7 of the Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulation) Act, 1961, and, under Sections 4 , 5 and 7 of the Punjab Public Premises and Land (Eviction and Rent Recovery) Act, 1973, seeking therein the relief that the petitioners herein, respondents therein, becoming evicted from the petition khasra numbers. The said petition is appended to the writ petition as Annexure P-4. The learned Collector concerned, dismissed the plea, as raised by the Gram Panchayat in the above said petition. However, thereafter in an appeal becoming preferred there against, by the the aggrieved-Gram Panchayat, before the Appellate Authority concerned, the latter reversed the verdict, as became initially recorded by the learned Collector concerned. The verdict as recorded by the learned Collector concerned is embodied in Annexure P-6.

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