2026:CGHC:17461 Digitally signed by YOGESH YOGESH TIWARI NAFR Date:

TIWARI

2026.04.16

18:20:28 +0530 HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR Order Reserved on : 16.03.2026 Order Delivered on : 16.04.2026 CR No. 57 of 2024

1 - Ramanand Gupta S/o Late Rameshwar Prasad Gupta, Aged About 57 Years Occupation Document Writer, R/o Village Parsa, Police Station And Tehsil Ambikapur District Surguja Chhattisgarh.

2 - Manoj Gupta S/o Shivanth Gupta Aged About 48 Years 3 - Shivnath, S/o Late Sitaram Kesari Aged About 85 Years

4 - Pradeep Kumar Kesari, S/o Shivnath Kesari Aged About 48 Years

5 - Sanjay Kesari S/o Shivnath Kesari, Aged About 55 Years 6 - Vinod Kesari, S/o Shivnath Kesari Aged About 40 Years, Petitoner No. 2 to 6 are R/o Gandhi Nagar, Ambikapur District Surguja Chhattisgarh.

(Petitioner No. 1 to 6 were Respondent No. 3 to 8 before the Court below).

... Applicants versus

1 - Commissioner, Nagar Palik Nigam Ambikapur District Surguja Chhattisgarh.

(Respondent No.1 before the Court below)

2 - Smt. Premshila Gupta W/o Ramakant Gupta Aged About 59 Years (Appellant before the Court below)

3 - Ramakant Gupta S/o Late Rameshwar Prasad Gupta Aged About 57 Years, (Respondent No.2 before the Court below)

Respndent No. 2 and 3 are R/o Mayapur, Police Station And Tehsil Ambikapur District Surguja Chhattisgarh.

--- Non-applicants (Cause-title taken from Case Information System)

For Applicants : Mr. Aman Upadhyay, Advocate For Non-applicant No.1 : Mr. Bhupendra Singh, Advocate For Non-applicants No.2 & 3 : Mr. Ashok Kumar Shukla, Advocate Hon'ble Shri Amitendra Kishore Prasad, Judge

CAV Order

1. Heard Mr. Aman Upadhyay, learned counsel appearing for the applicants as well as Mr. Bhupendra Singh, learned counsel appearing for non-applicant No.1 and Mr. Ashok Kumar Shukla, learned counsel appearing for non-applicants No.2 and 3.

2. The applicants have filed the present civil revision under Section

392 of the Chhattisgarh Municipal Corporation Act, 1956 (in short ‘Act of 1956’), challenging the order dated 03.02.2024 passed by the learned 3^rd Additional District Judge, Ambikapur, District Surguja, Chhattisgarh in Misc. Civil Appeal No. 04/2024 (Annexure A/1), whereby the learned appellate Court has partly allowed the appeal preferred by the private non-applicants against the notice issued by the Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Ambikapur under Sections 293 and 307(3) of the Act of 1956. By the impugned order, the matter has been remanded to the Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, Ambikapur with a direction to decide the rights of non-applicant No.2 herein in respect of the house in question in accordance with Sections 403(2)(a) and 403(3) of the Act of 1956, after affording adequate opportunity of hearing to all the parties. It has further been observed that, upon such decision being rendered by the Municipal Corporation, the parties shall have the right to prefer an appeal before the Appellate Committee, and for that purpose, due opportunity is required to be granted to them. It has also been directed that the decision taken by the Commissioner, Municipal Corporation, as well as by the Appellate Committee, shall be reported to the Court. Further, till the final decision is taken by the Municipal Corporation, Ambikapur, the parties have been directed to maintain status quo in respect of the suit house. The operative portion of the impugned order reads as follows:-

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