Court addressed land use concerns related to Eco Park development and premature filings.

CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PURNENDU SINGH ORAL ORDER

2 27-01-2026 Heard Mr. Binod Kumar Singh along with Ms.Vagisha Pragya Vacaknavi and Ms. Diksha Raj, learned counsels appearing on behalf of the petitioners and Mr. Sheo Shankar Prasad, learned SC 8 along with Mr. Sanjay Kumar, learned AC to SC 8 for the State.

2. The petitioners in paragraph no. 1 of the present writ petition has sought inter alia following relief(s), which is reproduced hereinafter :-

“That this is a writ petition on behalf of the petitioners for issuance of a writ of prohibition, permanently injunct and restrain the respondent/authorities from making any plotting works or any other physical activities, over Plot No.7995 of Khata No.2490 total purchased Area 2 Bigha 07 Kathha, 10 Dhurs, situated in Mauza Manjhaul, P.S. Manjhaul (Old P.S. Cheriya Bariyarpur) with the given boundaries mentioned in the registered sale deeds and amalgamated with the other purchased adjacent plots of the petitioners, forming one block of land, which are circumference by barbed wire fixed in concrete pillars permanently fixed all around the entire purchased lands forming one block, having residential house, twenty fruit bearing mango trees and doing agricultural works by ploughing the lands for growing oil crops, wheat crops and sugarcane crops etc.”

3. Mr. Shiv Shankar Prasad, learned Standing Counsel No. 8 appearing on behalf of the State informs that he has received instruction from the Circle Officer, Cheriya Bariyarpur, District Begusarai that the Eco Park is to be developed in the vicinity of the land of the petitioners, in compliance of order of the Apex Court over which allegedly the petitioners have claimed that those lands are their purchased lands, which are in their possession, bearing Khata No.2490, Plot No.7995, measuring area 2 Bigha, 07 Kathha and 10 Dhur, situated at Mauza- Manjhaul, P.S. Manjhaul (Old P.S. - Cheriya Bariyarpur) District Begusarai. Learned counsel further submitted that the Circle Officer has also informed that the plot, as described in the writ petition, has not been notified for developing Eco Park and, as such, the petitioners’ writ petition is pre-mature.

4. This Court finds it proper that by tomorrow (i.e.

28.01.2026), the learned State Counsel must verify the information, which the Circle Officer has given to him, from the District Magistrate-cum-Collector, Begusarai especially in respect of Khata No.2490, Plot No.7995, total area 2 Bigha, 07 Katha and 10 Dhur, as described above.

5. In view of the information given by the Circle Officer, I find that the Circle Officer is well conscious about his jurisdiction, over which he has proceeded to raise Eco Park in light of any order passed by the Apex Court.

6. Re-notify on 29.01.2026.

(Purnendu Singh, J)