Patna High Court passed the order in favour of petitioners directing that cancellation of jamabandi is unnecessary
TITLE: Gita Devi & Anr. v. The State of Bihar & Ors.
Decided on: 13-07-2023
CWJC No: 2573/2023
Coram: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DR. ANSHUMAN
Facts of the case:
The present writ application has been filed for a direction to the respondents to take appropriate legal action against the private respondents who have illegally and forcibly started cultivation over the land of the petitioners without any right, title, or legal possession. Another prayer has been made to cancel the forged jamabandi which was illegally created in the name of the private respondents.
Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that for cancellation of jamabandi, petitioners have filed Jamabandi Cancellation Case No. 07/2014-15 and in the said case, the Additional Collector, Nawada had cancelled Jamabandi Nos. 30/2007, 31, 2007, 32/2007, 34/2007, and 02/2003 which had been created illegally. Subsequently, the Jamabandi Demand No. 24 of 2002 was ordered to be restored. It has also been ordered that the petitioners may apply for the mutation before the Circle Officer, Nawada.
Learned counsel for the State submits that the said cancellation of forged jamabandi has been made against the private respondents and in favour of the petitioner. The said relief has already been granted to the petitioner vide order dated 16.08.2018 in Jamabandi Cancellation Case No. 07 of 2014-15 under Section of the Bihar Land Mutation Act, 2011 by the Additional Collector, Nawada and in this view of the matter, no case lies in favour of the petitioner.
Analysis of the court and decision:
Upon hearing learned counsel for the parties, it is crystal clear that under Section 9 of the Bihar Land Mutation Act, 2011, the Additional Collector is the competent authority to cancel the jamabandi and he has rightly passed the order in favour of the petitioners. Therefore, again cancellation of the said jamabandi is unnecessary. So far as another prayer for taking legal action against the private respondents who illegally and forcefully started cultivation is concerned, even then the petitioners won this case in her favour, they have to take other recourse of law available to them.
This writ petition stands disposed of with liberty to the petitioners that they may avail the appropriate remedy available to them before the appropriate forum, in accordance with the law, on the basis of the order made in their favour by the Additional Collector, Nawada.
With this liberty the writ petition stands disposed of.
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