GURMUKH SINGH Vs. DIRECTOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT & PANCHAYATS

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution of India has been filed by the petitioner to quash the orders dated 23.2.2005, Annexure P1, and dated 20.12.2002, Annexure P2, passed by respondents No. 1 and 2 respectively.

(2.) BRIEF facts of the case are that respondent No. 3-Gram Panchayat filed a petition under Section 7 of the Punjab Village Common Lands Regulation Act, 1961, before the Collector/District Development and Panchayat Officer, Fatehgarh Sahib, against the petitioner for his dispossession from the land (0-17) comprising in khewat khatoni No. 241/313, khasra No. 45//8 (8-10), situated at Village Khumna. It was further prayed therein that after the dispossession, the possession be given to the Gram Panchayat.

(3.) AGGRIEVED by the order dated 20.12.2002, the petitioner filed appeal before the Director, Rural Development and Panchayats, Punjab (Exercising the Powers of Commissioner)- respondent No. 1, which was also dismissed vide his order dated 23.2.2005 (Annexure P1).