ORDER : - This writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India has been filed by Smt. Rekha Singh and 16 others against the State of Uttar Pradesh, the Deputy Commissioner, Bahraich and the Divisional Forest Officer, Bahraich.

2. The petitioner's case is that they are the tenants of plots lying in villages Saran Kalan, Bhageria Sohni, Ponda and Niddhipurwa as specified in para 1 of the petition : that adjoining the land of the petitioners there is forest area which has been declared by the State of Uttar Pradesh to be reserve forest under a notification of 12-9-1967. It is alleged that the Forest Department illegally and wrongfully encroached upon and included a part of petitioners' land by fixing demarcation pillars, whereupon they applied to the Sub-Divisional Officer Nanpara for demarcation of forest land. The said application came up for disposal before the Additional Sub-Division Officer Nanpara who rejected the same, whereafter the petitioners filed an application before the Divisional Forest Officer for demarcation of the Forest land which was also rejected in March, 1971. Aggrieved by this petitioner No. 1 filed Writ Petition No. 504 of 1971, petitioner No. 2 fi

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