NATHU SINGH Vs. AGAR SINGH

JUDGEMENT

(1.) ALL these five appeals give rise to a common question of law and hence they are to be disposed of by this judgment.

(2.) NATHU Singh put up three different applications be ore the Settlement Officer for correction of entries in the Parcha Chakbandi. In all these applications Agar Singh was impleaded as the opposite party. All these applications were presented on the one and the same date i. e. 8. 1. 1954. One application related to Khasra No. 718, the other Khasra Nos. 825 and 918 etc. and the third to a land known as Sat Bigha Wali Ore. Chiranjilal put up two applications before the Assistant Settlement Officer. The first was presented on 3. 3. 1954 and related to land attached to Mohanwali well, the other was presented on 4. 3. 1954 and related to the land known by the name of Mukhiaji Jai Narainwali. Before any final decision could be arrived at on these applications by the Settlement Officer it appears that the Government issued a notification regarding the closure of survey operations and there upon all these pending proceedings were transferred to the S. D. O. Dausa. After repeated adjournments and recording some evidence of the parties the S. D. O. to whom these cases were eventually transferred, by his decision dated 5. 11. 1957 rejected them all with the brief observation that as no objections were preferred prior to the distribution of the Parchas before the Settlement Officer no action could be taken in these cases. Hence these appeals.