AFR IN THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA AT CUTTACK W.P.(C) No.13928 of 2019 Radhamohan Das and Others … Petitioners Mr. Satyabadi Mantry, Advocate -Versus-

Commissioner of Consolidation, … Opposite Parties Orissa, Cuttack and others Mr. D.P. Mohanty, Advocate for O.P. No.4 Mr. P.K. Ray, AGA CORAM:

JUSTICE R.K. PATTANAIK DATE OF JUDGMENT:03.04.2025

1. Instant writ petition is filed by the petitioners challenging the impugned orders as at Annexures-4 to 6 and to modify the same with a declaration for them to be recorded as sikimi raiyats with opposite party No.4 having no semblance of title in respect of the case land.

2. As per the petitioner, the subject matter in question was recorded with one Maulabi Sayed Tajmul Ali as an occupancy raiyat situate over Khata No.927 measuring an area of Ac.7.67 decimals, inasmuch as, the lands were recorded in the names of 9 sikimi raiyats under Sikimi Khata Nos.47 to 56 and while claiming so, a copy of the RoR of 1930 as at Annexures-1 and 1/A is referred to. It is further pleaded that all the sikimi raiyats having died, the case land was resumed prior to 1936 and on 6^th July, 1936 after the death of the raiyat named above, his legal heirs executed a power