AMRIK SINGH Vs. JOINT DEVELOPMENT COMMISSIONER

JUDGEMENT

(1.) CHALLENGE in the present writ petition is to the orders dated 10.11.2004 and 22.12.2004 passed by the Joint Development Commissioner, Punjab (exercising the powers of the Commissioner), under the Punjab Village Common Lands (Regulations) Act, 1961 (hereinafter referred to as 'the Act') accepting an appeal filed by the Gram Panchayat-respondent No. 3 and dismissing an application for review filed by the petitioner.

(2.) THE petitioner's refrain briefly put is that in the absence of any application filed under Section 11(1) of the Act, the Joint Development Commissioner had no jurisdiction to entertain the appeal filed by the Gram Panchayat under Section 11(2) of the Act.

(3.) THE D.D.P.O., thus, while holding he had no jurisdiction held that the land in dispute was owned by the Central Government and the Panchayat had no right over the land.