NATHMAL Vs. BOARD OF REVENUE RAJASTHAN JAIPUR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This is a petition for issue of a writ of certiorari in respect of a case decided by the Board of Revenue.

(2.) One Nuruddin filed a suit for redemption of a mortgage of certain agricultural land against Nathmal, in the Court of Nazim, Nimbahera. The Nazim decreed the suit for redemption subject to payment of Rs. 701/- by the plaintiff. Nathmal filed an appeal before the Commissioner of Udaipur who transferred it to the Additional Commissioner, and the latter allowed the appeal and dismissed the suit. Nuruddin had died in the meantime and Khawaja Hussain and others, legal representatives of said Nuruddin, filed a second appeal before the Board of Revenue. It was set for hearing before Shri Lal Sinha Saktawat, Member, Board of Revenue, who after hearing the parties did not agree with the Additional Commissioner and passed judgment on 22nd of September 1950 upholding the decision of the Nazim of Nimbahera. The operative portions of his judgment is:

(3.) In the present petition by Nathmal, it is contended that Shri Lal Sinha, a member of the Board of Revenue, heard the case at Udaipur on 22nd September 1950, on which date he passed the order mentioned as aforesaid. The acceptance of the appeal subject to the concurrence of his learned colleague, who did not hear the case, and was not sitting on the Bench with Shri Lal Sinha, was illegal. The passing of judgment by Shri A.A. Kherie at Jaipur on 29th September 1950 without notice to the defendant petitioner, or hearing him, has again been challenged as being illegal. It is argued that the alleged judgment of the Board of Revenue is to judgment at all and the case be sent for by the High Court for decision by that Court, or the Government of Rajasthan be directed to appoint a Tribunal consisting of members other than those who purported to decide the case as members of the Board, for decision in this case.