SALIMUDDIN Vs. DY. DIRECTOR OF CONSOLIDATION AND ORS.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD Sri Faujdar Rai for the Petitioners and Sri Ram Nivas Singh for the contesting Respondent.

(2.) FACTS , giving rise to the dispute, are as under.

(3.) THIS Court finding that the order passed by the Settlement Officer Consolidation is not available as the entire record got destroyed in fire in the record -room, in the ends of justice allowed the writ petition and remanded the case back to the Deputy Director of Consolidation to decide afresh in the light of respective claim and keeping in mind the mandate of Section 19 of the U. P. Consolidation of Holdings Act (for short the 'Act). It may be relevant to quote the following observations made in the judgment.