HIGH COURT OF JAMMU & KASHMIR AND LADAKH AT JAMMU WP(C) No.2030/2021 Reserved on: 02.04.2026 Pronounced on: 08.04.2026 Uploaded on:- 08.04.2026.

Whether the operative part or full judgment is pronounced: Yes S. Surinder Singh (66 yrs)

S/O late S. Suchet Singh R/O H.No.23 Sector-7, Lane No.1, Nanak Nagar, Jammu ..... Petitioner Through :- Mr. S.M Choudhary, Sr. Adv., with Mr. Bilal Choudhary, Adv.

V/S

1. The Commissioner/Secretary to Govt., Rural Development Department, Civil Secretariat, Jammu.

2. The Director, Rural Development, Jammu.

3. The District Collector, District Jammu.

4. The Block Development Officer, Marh.

.....Respondent(s)

Through :- Ms. Jagmeet Kour, Adv., vice Mr. Raman Sharma, AAG.

CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE M A CHOWDHARY, JUDGE

JUDGMENT

1. Petitioner claiming to be the so n of his predecessor-in-interest namely Suchet Singh, a displaced person from Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, who had occupied a piece of evacuees’ property land measuring 3 kanals and 16 marlas falling under khasra No.234 min (old) new 159 situated at village Halqa, Tehsil Jammu now Tehsil Marh District Jammu, has asserted that the aforesaid piece of land was initially allotted to his predecessor-in-interest, v