SANTU RAM Vs. STATE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) As common issues have been raised in all the petitions mentioned-above, the same are being disposed off by a common judgment.

(2.) In all the aforesaid petitions the Board of Revenue has refused to entertain second appeal/revision of the petitioners on the ground that petitioners have not deposited 25% of the reserved price of land allotted to the petitioners as per the requirement of the relevant rule of the Rules under which the application for allotment of land of the petitioners were refused or allotment already made under the said rules in favour of the petitioners have been cancelled.

(3.) The relevant Rule l0A of the Rajathan Colonisation (Allotment of Government Land to Pong Dam Oustees in Rajasthan Canal Colony Area) Rules 1972 (in short hereinafter called as the 'Pong Dam Rules') and Rule 23A of the Rajasthan Colonisation (Allotment and Sale of Government Land in Rajasthan Canal Colony Area) Rules 1975 (in short hereinafter called as the 'Rules of 1975), which was inserted in the said rules framed under the Rajasthan Colonisation Act, 1954 on different dates read as under:-