Office Notes, reports, orders or S N L o . . Date p d r ir o e c c e t e i d o i n n s g a s n o d r COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS Registrar’s order with Signatures WPMS No.335 of 2026 Hon’ble Pankaj Purohit, J.

Mr. Harshpal Sekhon, Advocate for the petitioner.

2. Anil Kumar Dabral, Add. C.S.C. with Mr.

Suyash Pant, S.C. for the State.

3. According to learned counsel for the petitioner, he is a landless person, who was allotted a piece of agricultural land declared surplus in proceedings under U.P. Imposition of Ceiling on Land Holdings Act, 1960, vide order dated 13.01.2006. Grievance raised by petitioner is that his name is not being recorded in Category 1 kha i.e. Bhumidhar with non-

transferable right.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner relies upon Section 131(d) of Uttarakhand Zamidari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950 in support of his contention that every person, with whom surplus land is settled, is entitled to be recorded as Bhumidhar with nontransferable right. Section

131(d) of the aforesaid Statute is quoted below:- “131. Bhumidhar with nontransferable rights.- (d) with effect from July 1, 1981 every person with whom surplus land is or has been settled under 26A or sub-sect