RAKHOHARI GOPE Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) IN the instant writ application filed by way of public interest litigation, the petitioners have prayed for quashing the notification/resolution dated 30.9.2003 (Annexure -5) issued by the respondent No. 2, whereby rehabilitation policy earlier declared by the undivided State of Bihar in respect of displaced persons whose lands and houses were acquired for the purposes of the Subarnarekha Project was amended.

(2.) THE facts stated briefly are that for the purpose of providing irrigation facilities to the vast tracts of the land in the Chhotanagpur region, the erstwhile undivided State of Bihar launched a project known as Subarnarekha Multi -purpose Project.

(3.) IN their counter -affidavit, respondents deny and dispute the claim of the petitioners and counter assert that the amended rehabilitation policy would not deprive the displaced persons of any of the benefits assured to them. Rather, the amended rehabilitation policy introduces facilities better than what was provided in the policy declared by the erstwhile State of Bihar in 1981.