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2012 Supreme(All) 1784

[2012(7) ADJ 677]
ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT
BEFORE : S.U. KHAN, J.
ANIL KUMAR ....Petitioner
Versus
STATE OF U.P. AND OTHERS ....Respondents
(Civil Misc. Writ Petition No. 33751 of 2012, decided on 18th July, 2012)

Advocates:
Counsel :
Shashi Nandan and S.R. Kushwaha for the Petitioner; C.S.C. for the Respondents.

Headnote:Allotment—Gaon Sabha land—Legality of—Allotment of land made by way of forged document—Concerned authority failed to consider the legal aspect—Public Interest Litigation filed and certain directions were issued—Any person found in possession of the land alleged to have been allotted should be dispossessed—District Collector directed to submit a compliance report in respect of compliance of the directions given in PIL. [Paras 9, 10 and 11]

       Result; Order Accordingly.

       

JUDGMENT

Hon’ble S.U. Khan, J.—Heard Sri Shashi Nandan, learned senior counsel assisted by Sri S.R. Kushwaha, learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Standing Counsel for the State and its authorities respondents.

2. Petitioner is Lekhpal, posted at Galand Tehsil Ghoulana, District Panchsheel Nagar (Hapur). He has been suspended through order dated 16.6.2012 which is challenged through this writ petition and is contained in Annexure 1 to the writ petition. The allegation against the petitioner is that he gave false report so that names of private person could be entered as Bhoomidhar over gaon sabha land which consisted of pond grave yard etc. and that he filed report of possession on the basis of alleged allotment of 1989 after 22 years even though the name of the alleged allottees was not recorded in the revenue record.

3. There is absolutely nothing wrong in the impugned suspension order.

4. However, the documents annexed alongwith the writ petition disclose a horrible state of affairs and confirm the view of this Court taken in several cases that Gaon Sabha/State property particularly in districts Gautam Budh Naga, Ghaziabad and Meerut is being looted with active assistance of revenue officers on large scale. In this regard reference may be made to a judgment given by me reported in Dina Nath v. State of U.P., 2009(9) ADJ 735 : 2009 (108) RD 321, relevant paragraph of the said authority are quoted below:

“10. If the Collector finds that no patta was executed in 1968 and Ram Roop and his family members usurped the property of the Gaon Sabha on the ground that prior to 1969, he was Pradhan, then stern action must be taken/recommended to be taken against the C.O. who passed the order on 12.2.1997. Collector may also re-open all such cases in the District in which Gaon Sabha property was mutated in the name of private persons in the similar manner. If patta is executed, then immediately name of the allottee is mutated in the revenue records. Few months delay in getting the names mutated in the revenue records on the basis of pattas is understandable but few decades or few years delay is not at all understandable.

11. The experience of the Court is that during consolidation proceedings, Consolidation Authorities/ Officers liberally donate the Gaon Sabha properties to influential/ resourceful persons by passing such orders as has been passed in the instant case.

12. Accordingly, all the Collectors of all the Districts in the State are directed to re-open such cases where names of private persons are entered in revenue records on the basis of old pattas or adverse possession over Gaon Sabha land and correct the illegality by taking suo motu action. However, no orders shall be set aside without issuing notice and hearing affected persons. If notice through registered post is not served then it may be served through publication in the newspaper also. If it is found that some Consolidation Officer or S.O.C. or D.D.C. has done similar thing, then the action must be proposed to be taken against him also.

13. Supreme Court has held that fraud vitiates even most solemn proceedings vide Mahboob Sahab v. Syed Ismail and others, AIR 1995 SC 1205 (Para-9), United India Insurance Company v. Rajendra Singh, AIR 2000 SC 1165 and A.V. Papaya Sastry v. Government of A.P. and others, AIR 2007 SC 1546 (Para-39).”

5. The said judgment was challenged before the Supreme Court in the form of SLP (Civil) SC 4398 of 2010 Dina Nath v. State. The Supreme Court dismissed the SLP on 29.3.2010 by holding that “The learned Single Judge could see through the game of Ramroop and like and dismissed the writ petition by recording the following reasons” and thereafter quoted almost my entire judgment in inverted commas and approved the same. A similar matter has recently been decided by me pertaining to Ghaziabad on 1.3.2012. The said judgment is in U.P. Avas Evam Vikas Parishad v. Lajja Ram, 2012 RJ 777 para 30 of the said authority is quoted below:

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