Advocates:
['P N RAINA', 'SR ADV', 'D R KHAJURIA', '', 'ANIL VERMA', 'D C RAINA SR ADV', 'M A BHAT', 'ANANTA RAINA']

HIGH COURT OF JAMMU AND KASHMIR

AT JAMMU

LPAOW no. 56/2010

CMA no. 82/2010

Date of order: 27.01.2014

Baldev Raj

v.

J&K Special Tribunal and ors.

Coram:

Hon’ble Mr. Justice M. M. Kumar, Chief Justice

Hon’ble Mr. Justice Hasnain Massodi, Judge

Appearing Counsel:

For the appellant(s)

:

Mr. P. N. Raina, Sr. Advocate with

Mr. O. P. Thakur, Advocate.

For the respondent(s)

:

Mr. D. R. Khajuria, Advocate.

1.

Whether to be reported in

:

Yes

Press/Journal/Media

2.

Whether to be reported in

:

Yes

Digest/Journal

Per Massodi, J

1.

Subject matter of the dispute is a plot of land

measuring 40 kanals and 19 marlas comprising Survey

Nos. 16 & 17 situated at Village Top Sherkhania,

Jammu

(hereinafter

called

“land

in

dispute”).

Chronologically, the litigation over the land in dispute

may be divided into two phases. In the first phase, the

reversionaries of original owner of the land, Shri Jodh

Singh, fought a long drawn legal battle with Shri

Ghasitu Ram - the tenant inducted by alienee of limited

owner, namely, Smt. Dadwal widow of Jodh Singh. The

litigation started in 1936 A.D a