2026:CGHC:12561 YOGESH D YO ig G it E a S ll H y s T ig IW ne A d R b I y NAFR TIWARI Date: 2026.03.16 HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR REVP No. 35 of 2026 Laxman Prasad S/o Shri Madho Diwaker Aged About 53 Years R/o Village Udka, Gram Panchayat Tarwarpur, Janpad Panchayat Mungeli, P.S. Setganga, Tahsil and District Mungeli Chhattisgarh.

... Petitioner versus

1 - State of Chhattisgarh Through The Secretary Revenue Department Mantralaya Mahanadi Bhawan, Capital Complex, Atal Nagar, Naya Raipur, Chhattisgarh

2 - Collector, Mungeli, District Mungeli Chhattisgarh 3 - Tehsildar, Mungeli, District Mungeli Chhattisgarh

4 - Smt. Suniti Kurre @ Sunti Bai W/o Mahendra Kurre Aged About 42 Years R/o Village - Udka, Gram Panchayat Tarwarpur, Janpad Panchayat Mungeli, P.S. - Setganga, Tahsil And District Mungeli Chhattisgarh

5 - Arjun Kurre S/o Shri Lakhan Lal Kurre R/o Village- Udka, Gram Panchayat Tarwarpur, Janpad Panchayat Mungeli, P.S. - Setganga, Tahsil And District - Mungeli Chhattisgarh

6 - Same @ Jyoti Kurre D/o Shri Hinchha Kurre R/o Village- Udka, Gram Panchayat Tarwarpur, Janpad Panchayat Mungeli, P.S. -

Setganga, Tahsil And District - Mungeli Chhattisgarh

7 - Mahesh Kumar S/o Shri Gofelal R/o Village- Udka, Gram Panchayat Tarwarpur, Janpad Panchayat Mungeli, P.S. - Setganga, Tahsil And District - Mungeli Chhattisgarh

8 - Yogendra Kumar S/o Shri Arjun Ratre R/o Village- Udka, Gram Panchayat Tarwarpur, Janpad Panchayat Mungeli, P.S. - Setganga, Tahsil And District - Mungeli Chhattisgarh

9 - Premkumar Diwaker S/o Shri Mahesh R/o Village- Udka, Gram Panchayat Tarwarpur, Janpad Panchayat Mungeli, P.S. - Setganga, Tahsil And District - Mungeli Chhattisgarh

10 - Ramesh Kumar Anchal S/o Shri Jeewan Lal Anchal R/o Village- Udka, Gram Panchayat Tarwarpur, Janpad Panchayat Mungeli, P.S. -

Setganga, Tahsil And District - Mungeli Chhattisgarh

11 - Kuldeep S/o Laxmi Prasad R/o Village- Udka, Gram Panchayat Tarwarpur, Janpad Panchayat Mungeli, P.S. - Setganga, Tahsil And District - Mungeli Chhattisgarh

12 - Gahsidas Diwaker S/o Shri Piladas Diwaker R/o Village- Udka, Gram Panchayat Tarwarpur, Janpad Panchayat Mungeli, P.S. -

Setganga, Tahsil And District - Mungeli Chhattisgarh

13 - Narayan Diwaker S/o Shri Gayaram Diwaker R/o Village- Udka, Gram Panchayat Tarwarpur, Janpad Panchayat Mungeli, P.S. -

Setganga, Tahsil And District - Mungeli Chhattisgarh

14 - Raj S/o Shri Madho R/o Village- Udka, Gram Panchayat Tarwarpur, Janpad Panchayat Mungeli, P.S. - Setganga, Tahsil And District -

Mungeli Chhattisgarh

15 - Arjun Kurre S/o Kalyan Kurre R/o Village- Udka, Gram Panchayat Tarwarpur, Janpad Panchayat Mungeli, P.S. - Setganga, Tahsil And District - Mungeli Chhattisgarh ... Respondents (Cause-title taken from Case Information System)

Hon’ble Shri Amitendra Kishore Prasad, Judge

Order on Board

16.03.2026

1. By this petition, the review petitioner seeks review of the order dated 19.12.2025 passed in WPS No.1663 of 2023, whereby this Court had dismissed the writ petition by holding that the material produced by respondent No.4, including the voter list, is a primary public document, prepared in the discharge of statutory functions and carrying a presumption of correctness unless disproved by cogent evidence. The petitioner was unable to rebut the said presumption or produce any unimpeachable material to demonstrate his residence in Village Udka. In such circumstances, this Court found no infirmity in the reasoning adopted by the Board of Revenue and concluded that, considering residence within the same village is a mandatory criterion for appointment of a Kotwar, the order passed by the learned Board of Revenue did not suffer from any legal or factual error warranting interference under Article 226 of the Constitution of India. Consequently, no case for exercise of extraordinary writ jurisdiction was made out, and the writ petition was dismissed.

2. The facts of the case, as presented before this Hon’ble Court, are that the earlier Kotwar of village Udka, one Mahendra