VIDYA DHAR MISRA Vs. RAM PRAKASH PANDEY

JUDGEMENT

(1.) P. K. Jain, J. List has been revised. Heard Sri P. K. Singh holding brief of Sri J. S. Sengar, learned counsel for the revisionist. None appears for the opposite parties. It appears from the record that on a report lodged by the revisionist a case under Sec tions 447,452,504,506 and 427,i. P. C. was registered against the revisionist. It appears that the allegations in the First Information Report related to demolition of wall which both the parties were claiming to be in their possession. The Investigating Officer during the investigation moved an applica tion before City Magistrate for the help of revenue authority for measurement of the land to arrive at a conclusion as to whose possession the disputed wall was. The Addi tional City Magistrate appears to have directed the Tahsildar concerned to provide necessary help to the Investigating Officer. This order was challenged before the Ses sions Judge. The Additional Sessions Judge who disposed the revision referred judg ment in criminal revision No. 248 of 1983 in which he had held that the orders were mala fide and passed by the Additional City Magistrate in collusion with the police. While allowing the revision the learned Ad ditional Sessions Judge made following ob servations. "besides that I find that the order passed by the Additional City Magistrate was without juris diction otherwise as well as. The investigation was being conducted by S. O. Cantt and if he needed any help in the investigation then the proper authority for getting that help and getting the orders passed was the Judicial Magistrate having jurisdiction over the area and it was only the Judi cial Magistrate concerned who could have passed order for help in the measurements for the pur pose of investigation. The Executive Magistrate had absolutely no jurisdiction to intervene in that affair at all. "

(2.) THE learned Additional Sessions Judge allowed the revision and set aside the order passed by the Additional City Magistrate.