STATE OF RAJASTHAN Vs. RATAN SINGH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THESE are seven appeals filed by the Government Advocate on behalf of the State against the various respondents and arise out of the orders passed by the Sub-Divisional, Officer, Ganganagar on various dates. Since all these appeals relate to the correction of girdawari entries and raise a common point of law and there is a common memo in all these appeals, they were heard together and this single judgment disposes off all these appeals.

(2.) THE learned Government Advocate contended that as a result of the enforcement of the Zamindari and Biswedari Abolition Act in November, 1959, all holdings other than Khudkasht were to vest in the State and therefore the Zamindars in Ganganagar District made an attempt to get as much land entered into their Khudkasht. For this reason they filed applications for correction of girdawari entries in which cultivation was entered into the name of other persons. THE applicant Zamindars and the non-applicant tenants entered into a collusive engagement by which the non-applicants accepted the application of the Zamindars and agreed to get the entry corrected in their favour in order to defeat the provisions of the Zamindari and Biswedari Abolition Act.