LEKHA SINGH Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) STATE officers colossal negligence, indifference, bordering on apathely towards land reform legislations has resulted in filing of "no return" after pendency of more than three years of this writ petition. The Law Officer fairly and frankly express their helplessness, in filling the return, when concerned officers become "dumb and deaf" to the repeated requets to send instructions and record. This Court is not concerned with the "internal disorder "exhibited above" but feel handicapped in the absence of production of relevant record and even notification of delegation, if any. With the above tiny preface let me know narrate the case in traditional convention.

(2.) THE petitioner in these writ petitions have challenged the order Annex. 1, in both the cases, passed by Tehsildar, Colonisation directing their eviction, imposing penalty and sentence of three months civil imprisonment under Section 22 of the Rajasthan Colonisation Act, 1954. In both the cases the impugned orders state that the petitioners have committed trespass second time, after they were declared trespassers for this very land earlier.

(3.) BEFORE I proceed to adjudicate the points raised before me. I must mention that these two cases are of agricultural land in Ganganagar District, where irrigated lands reap extremely good crops and there is always pressure for land allotments. The absence of return only puts a question mark on the bonafides of the concerned officers, but beyond that it is not for this Court to make any deductions.