MSTSUKHDEI Vs. DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF CONSOLIDATION

JUDGEMENT

(1.) TWO questions have been referred by a learned single Judge. The questions are:

(2.) IN case, it is voidable, do the consolidation authorities have jurisdiction to adjudicate upon its validity?

(3.) SECTION 195 provides that the Land Management Committee shall have the right to admit a person as sirdar to certain lands enumerated therein Similarly, Section 197 provides that the Land Management Committee shall have the right to admit any person as Asami to the lands mentioned therein, which need not be enumerated here. Section 198 provides for the order of preference in admitting persons to land under Sections 195 or 197. The relevant provision of Section 198 reads as follows: