SONARAM HANSDA Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) HEARD the parties.

(2.) THE Petitioner in the instant case prays interalia for an appropriate order restraining the Respondents from setting the Tank situated on Khata No. 169 Plot Nos. 67 -68 under Mauza Hamsada commonly known as 'Hamsada Bandh '. He further makes a prayer that this order should be delisted from the list of Tanks to be settled for financial year 2002 -03 as he has apprehensions that the same would be settled and included in the said list vide serial No. 20 thereof. The Petitioner has further made a prayer that the concerned Circle Officer be directed to fix rent of the Tank so that he may be able to pay rent to the State.

(3.) THE petitioner has stated that after the aforementioned judgment had been delivered, the Additional Deputy Commissioner, Saraikella Kharsawan at Seraikella (Respondent No. 3) wrote a letter to the Circle Officer Chandil wherein, he informed him that the Petitioner had produced a copy of the Judgment delivered in Title Suit No. 54/1987. Accordingly, he directed, that as per the Judgment rendered therein, the Circle Officer was to take steps for fixation of rent. This is a document that proves that at least in the year 1993, the Respondents had become aware of the Judgment passed in Title Suit No. 54/1987.