Ashutosh Singh v. State of U.P. and 6 Others

Court No. - 52 Case :- PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. - 2369 of 2023 Petitioner :- Ashutosh Singh Respondent :- State Of U.P. And 6 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Sanjay Kumar Upadhyay,Ram Mani Upadhyay Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.,Pankaj Kumar Gupta Hon'ble Saurabh Srivastava,J.

¶1Heard Sri Sanjay Kumar Upadhyay, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Dhananjay Singh, learned Standing counsel appearing on behalf of respondent nos. 1 to 3 and Sri Pankaj Kumar Gupta, learned counsel for respondent no. 4.

¶2Present petition has been filed seeking a direction in the nature of mandamus to be issued in favour of the respondents to remove the illegal encroachment made over the public utility land bearing Gata Nos. 234 and 125 situated at village Sisauni, Tehsil Harraiya, District Basti.

¶3On previous occasion specific instructions were called from learned Standing Counsel as well as learned counsel appearing for Gram Sabha to apprise the Court whether any proceedings undr Section 26 of U.P. Revenue Code, 2006 or not as well as under which circumstances proceedings under Section 67 of U.P. Revenue Code, 2006 which has been initiated in the year 2022 is pending till today. Today when the matter is taken up specific instructions has been filed, which are taken on record.

¶4By perusal of the instructions it is transpired that proceedings under Section 67 of U.P. Revenue Code which has been initiated in 2022, wherein next date is fixed or 24.11.2023.

¶5Since the proceeding under Section 67 of U.P. Revenue Code is pending from 2022, writ petition stands disposed of with the best hope that revenue authorities shall finalise the same as expeditiously as possible. Order Date :- 17.11.2023 Md Faisal High Court of Judicature at Allahabad