Ramanand v. State of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Revenue Deptt. Lko and 8 Others

Court No. - 17 Case :- PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. - 1112 of 2023 Petitioner :- Ramanand Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Revenue Deptt. Lko And 8 Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Jay Prakash Singh Vats,Ajay Kumar Soni Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.,Pankaj Gupta Hon'ble Alok Mathur,J.

¶1Heard learned counsel for petitioner as well as learned Standing Counsel for State respondents and Sri Pankaj Gupta, learned counsel appearing for respondent no. 4.

¶2In light of the proposed order, notices to private respondents are dispensed with.

¶3By means of present writ petition the petitioner has approached this court seeking a direction to the State respondents to evict the private respondents as well as any other person who has illegally encroached upon the public land being Gata No. 1260-Kha, area 1.227 and Gata No. 1307, area 0.696 hectares hectares, situated in Village - Siya, Pargana - Bihar, Tehsil - Kunda, District - Pratapgarh, expeditiously.

¶4Learned counsel for petitioner submits that illegal encorachment over the public land has been made by private respondent nos. 5 to 9 existing over Gata No. 1260-Kha, area

1.227 and Gata No. 1307, area 0.696 hectares hectares, situated in Village - Siya, Pargana - Bihar, Tehsil - Kunda, District - Pratapgarh, and said land is recorded as 'Pond' in the revenue record.

¶5It is further submitted that with regard to aforesaid illegal encorachment over the public land by the private respondents, the petitioner has moved several applications before the authorities concerned, but till date no action has been taken in this regard.

¶6Learned Standing Counsel on the other hand has submitted that petitioner has efficacious remedy under Section 67 of U.P. Revenue Code, 2006 where after obtaining report of Revenue Inspector and issuing notices to the alleged encroachers, effective orders for removal of the alleged encroachments as well as levy of penalty can be passed in case the allegations are found correct.

¶7Learned counsel for petitioner at this stage submits that petitioner may be given liberty to move an application under Section 67 of U.P. Revenue Code, 2006 before the competent authority.

¶8Accordingly, without entering into merits of the case, the writ petition, is disposed of with a liberty to the petitioner to move an application before the competent authority within two weeks from today and in case such an application is made within the prescribed period, the said authority is directed to proceed to consider and decide the same expeditiously, in accordance with law. Order Date :- 29.11.2023 A. Verma (Alok Mathur, J.) High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench