Court No.5 Writ C No.11232 of 2025 Savitri Sonkar Vs. State of U.P. and others Hon’ble Alok Mathur, J.

1. Heard Sri Vivek Raj Singh, Senior Advocate assisted by Sri Akshat Kumar, Shantanu Sharma, Kunwar Naresh Vardhan Singh, Utkarsh Singh, Sukrit Singh and Siddhartha Misra on behalf of the petitioner, as well as Sri Satish Kumar, Senior Advocate, assisted by Sri Prem Singh on behalf of the State.

2. The facts in the present case demonstrate a very sorry state of affairs about the proceedings undertaken by the revenue authorities in dealing with the exercise of statutory power to determine the right and title of the property, their lack of sensitivity and deliberate disregard for the rule of law and the directions of the Courts, including the Hon’ble Supreme Court.

3. In the instant case suo moto proceedings were initiated under Section 38 (5) of U.P. Revenue Code for correction of revenue records which was unilaterally corrected on 10.2.2025 without giving any notice or opportunity of hearing to the petitioner who is the recorded tenure holder of the said land, declaring the said land to be Gaon sabha land and subsequently a revenue team was constituted to demolish the said structure.