GONCHO KACHHAP Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD the learned counsel for the parties.

(2.) LEARNED counsel for the petitioners submits that the land acquisition proceedings were initiated in the year 1959 and the compensation was received by the ancestors of the petitioners in the year 1959 itself. By this petition, the petitioners have come with the prayer that under Section 48 of the Bihar Land Acquisition Act, the lands in question should be restored, because there are letters of the State Government on record as Annexures- 2 and 3 , which say that State has decided to reacquire the lands by the Revenue Department.

(3.) IN that view of the matter, invoking Section 48 of the Act cannot be considered to be a lawful proposition. IN that view of the matter, the acquisition which was completed after paying compensation in the year 1959, now it cannot be sought to be revoked or re-agitated in the year 2005, for which petition has been filed.