RAM NIWAZ Vs. CONSOLIDATION OFFICER ANTIM ABHILEKH BASTI

JUDGEMENT

(1.) BY means of this writ petition the petitioners have prayed for a writ of prohibition directing the respondents nos. 1 to 3 not to start consolidation operation or adjudicate any case or title about any of the plots or chak situate in village Amauli or to make any correction in consolidation records under section 42 of the U. P. Consolidation of Holdings Act.

(2.) BOTH the parties agree that the village in question was under consolidation operation and denotification under section 52 of the UP CH Act has taken place on 3-8-1985. Thereafter the petitioners were served with notices contained in Annexures III and V attached with the writ petition. Therefore, the petitioners have approached this Court for the relief mentioned above."

(3.) IN rejoinder the learned counsel for the petitioners has invited my attention to the rulings Raja Ram v. Dy. Director of Consolidation, U. P. Lucknow, 1982 AWC 437 = 1982 RD 387 and Ram Pal Singh v. D. D. C. Meerut, 1986 RD 40. The aforesaid rulings have considered the scope of Section 52 of the Act and of Rule 109-A under the aforesaid Act.