HARI CHAND Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) AT the request and with the consent of the learned counsel for the parties, the petition has been finally heard at this stage itself.

(2.) BY way of this writ petition, the petitioner seeks to question the proceedings sought to be adopted by the respondent-State while treating him a trespasser over the land in question. The submission of the petitioner is that his father purchased the land in question at Chak 29 GB, Tehsil Anupgarh, District Sriganganagar at Stone No.107/19 (old), as now comprised in new Khasra No.25, admeasuring 8 bighas. The land in question is said to have been purchased from one Shri Narendra Singh (now represented by his son ­ respondent No.5) but is alleged to have been resumed in the re-opened agricultural land ceiling proceedings against the said Shri Narendra Singh.

(3.) IT is submitted on behalf of the petitioner, and the learned Government Counsel is not in a position to controvert, that the matter in issue has been set at rest by a Larger Bench of this Court in the case of Sahas Karan Vs. State of Rajasthan & Ors.: CWP No. 2598/1989 wherein, on the specific reference made on the question about the law governing the field, particularly when the decision in Pari Devi's case had been affirmed by the Hon'ble Supreme Court, the Hon'ble Larger Bench has answered the reference on 13.04.2011 as under:-