PRAG Vs. RAM DAS

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS is an application in revision against an order rejecting an application that the Magistrate trying a case pending before him had no jurisdiction to try it.

(2.) THE dispute relates to certain agricultural plots, which according to the applicants are part of village Angraura in the district of Sitapur and according to the complainants opposite-parties are part of village Bhonri Kaundor situated in district Bahraich. These two districts of Sitapur and bahruich are divided by river Ghogra, which often changes its course. The dispute was about possession over these plots and the complaint was filed in the Court of Sub-Divisional Officer of qaisergunj, district Bahraich. The applicants' case was that the Sub-Divisional Officer of qaisergunj had no jurisdiction to try the case because the plots in dispute were situated on the other side of the river Ghogra, the side on which the district of Sitapur was situated.

(3.) IN the Revenue Manual (Volume II) paragraph 1631, the limits of the two districts are thus specified :