Misclassification of land necessitates modification in legal acknowledgment of land status with implications for compensation.

JUDGMENT

The petitioner is aggreived by Ext.P1 proceedings, wherein the petitioner’s property has been categorized as a wet land, without road access. The petitioner would contend that, an application in Form-5 preferred by the petitioner has been allowed and the property has been removed from the data bank, vide Ext.P8. That apart, petitioner filed another application in Form-6 seeking conversion of the petitioner’s land to dry land, vide Ext.P9. The above aspects would unerringly point to the fact that the property in question is a dry land; and not a wet land. That apart, going by Ext.P3 location sketch, it could be seen that a property has a P.W.D road access. On such premise, the petitioner seek relief for appropriate modification of Ext.P1 proceedings.

2. Having perused the above documents, the learned Government Pleader would not dispute the facts and claims made by the petitioner, which are recorded above.

3. In such circumstances, there will be a direction to the 2^nd respondent/District Collector to make suitable modification to Ext.P1, so as to treat the petitioner’s land as a dry land with P.W.D road access - instead of a wet land with no road access - at the time of passing the Award and the compensation has to be fixed accordingly.

The Writ Petition (Civil) stands allowed as accordingly.

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