JUDGMENT :

1. This is the second round before this Court after the Supreme Court remanded the above writ petitions vide judgment and order dated 23.09.2010 setting-aside the judgment and order dated 04.02.1998 passed by this Court.

2. Challenge, in this bunch of writ petitions, is to the orders dated 28.02.1980 passed by the Forest Settlement Officer, Lakhimpur Kheri in Case No.85 of 1979 under Section 6/9 of The Indian Forest Act, 1927 (for short “Act, 1927”) and dated 10.07.1980 passed by the District Judge, Kheri in Civil Misc. Appeal No.23 of 1980 whereby the petitioners’ objection, in respect of land bearing Plot No.75-H, situated in Village Khairati Purwa, Pargana Ferozabad, Tehsil Nighasan, District Kheri, having an area of 50 Acres, was accepted and, it was directed to exclude the said area from the Notification dated 18.10.1952, as amended on 27.04.1960, declaring 1,343.87 Acres, including the land, bearing Plot No.75-H as ‘reserved forest’.

3. The facts, which are necessary for deciding this bunch of writ petitions, are stated briefly hereunder:-

I. The Uttar Pradesh Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950 (for short “Act, 1950”) came into force in the State of Uttar P