SETH MANSUKH RAI MORE Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS is a writ petition under Art. 226 of the Constitution by one Seth Mansukh Rai More by which he questions the validity of certain orders passed by the respondents for assessing to rent the land that he obtained by a patta from the Jagirdar of Dundlod on Sawan Sudi 6th Samvat year 1994, and he seeks appropriate writ, direction or order prohibiting the respondents from imposing any land revenue or rent on the land obtained by the petitioners. He further prays that the proceedings already taken in the matter by raising the demand of rent against him be quashed.

(2.) THE relevant facts may be stated as follows : THE petitioner, who was leading businessman of Nawalgarh, was desirous of providing educational facilities for the benefit of the people of that area and in particular for education in Sanskrit to the young boys of his home district. With this object he established contact with the Jagirdar of Thikana Dundlod for the acquisition of the land. His case is that the Jagirdar first sold him 101 Bighas of Kham land in Dhani Pipalwali adjoining Dundlod town by a patta of Sawan Sudi 6th Samvat year 1994, and as this land was found to be insufficient for the purpose he negotiated for more land and the Jagirdar thereafter sold 199 Bighas of Kham land and a consolidated patta of the entire land was issued in favour of the petitioner on Pos Sudi 15th Samvat year 1998. THE petitioner's case is that this land was pur-