ROOREY Vs. BOARD OF REVENUE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS is an appeal from an order of Mr. Justice Chaturvedi dismissing a petition under Article 226 of the Constitution.

(2.) THE only question raised in the appeal is whether a single member of the Board of Revenue can, in a second appeal under the provisions of the U.P. ZA and LR Act 1950 alter or reverse the appellate judgment of the commissioner. It is, we think, a matter of regret that in this case which directly concerns the practice and procedure of the Board of Revenue, the Board, although served with notice of the appeal, did not enter an appearance and was accordingly not represented at the hearing.

(3.) THE Board of Revenue is constituted under the U.P. Land Revenue Act, 1901 Sections 5, 7 and 8 of which read thus: