DHARMA DEVI Vs. STATE OF BIHAR (NOW JHARKHAND)

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS application has been preferred by the petitioners against the orders contained in Memo No. 7312, dated 30th October, 1992 (Annexure -4) and the Memo No. 7399, dated 2nd November, 1992 (Annexure -7), both issued by the Deputy Commissioner, Deoghar. By the first order, the Deputy Commissioner, Deoghar directed the Circle Officer, Deoghar to comply with the order by 31st October, 1992 regarding eviction of the petitioners and for that, if necessary, the Superintendent of Police, Deoghar, will be deploying a police officer along with police force. Similar order has also been passed vide the subsequent order contained in Memo No. 7399, dated 2nd November, 1992, whereby it was also ordered to depute an Execution Magistrate, Deoghar for eviction of the petitioners from the land in question.

(2.) FOR determination of the issue, it is not necessary to discuss all the facts, except the relevant one.

(3.) IT appears that the petitioners have already moved before a civil Court of competent jurisdiction in Title Suit No. 94 of 1992 for declaration of right and title in respect of the land in question. The said suit is pending for final hearing. Now, it is a settled law that on creation of Jamabandi, no right and title is created in favour of one or other, nor cancellation of Jamabandi extinguishes the right and titled of the actual owner, rather it only enables the person to pay rent by entering his name in Register -II. In this regard, one may refer to a Division Bench decision in the case of Sitaram Choubey and Ors. v. The State of Bihar and Ors., reported in 1993(2) PLJR, 255. In the circumstances, as the creation of Jamabandi does not create any right and title in favour of the petitioners, nor cancellation of the Jamabandi will create any right in favour of the 5th respondents, this Court is not inclined to give any finding on the merit of those orders. Sofar as the eviction is concerned, it is a settled law that only a Court of competent jurisdiction can pass such order. Neither any person can be evicted on the basis of an order of cancellation of Jamabandi, nor possession can be given in favour of any person on the basis of creation of Jamabandi.