LACHHMAN Vs. THE JOINT DIRECTOR, PANCHAYATS, PUNJAB

JUDGEMENT

(1.) BY way of this Letters Patent Appeal, the appellant impugns the judgment of the learned Single Judge, dated 12.2.2007.

(2.) THE facts that have led to the filing of the present appeal may be noticed in brief.

(3.) AFTER recording of evidence, the District Development and Panchayat Officer-cum-Collector held that though the jamabandi for the year 1977-78 reflects the name of the Panchayat in the ownership column, but as the jamabandi for the year 1960-61, described the land as Shamlat Patti Khawaspur, Hasab Rasad Khewat, the land was evacuee property and did not vest in the Gram Panchayat. It was also held that merely because ownership had been altered to the name of the Panchayat, the said land did not vest in the Gram Panchayat. The learned Collector specifically made a pointed reference to the fact that the question whether shamlat land, left behind by Muslims, vests in the Gram Panchayat or the Rehabilitation Department, was pending adjudication before the Hon'ble Supreme Court.