VISHWADEO NARAIN SINGH Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Learned counsel for the petitioner during argument, confines the present writ petition to the extent of the first prayer i.e. for issuance of direction upon the respondent No.2 for expeditiously disposing of the petitioner's application dated 10.02.1992 or 07.01.2000 filed in L.C. Case No. 13/1973-74 under Sec. 37 of the Bihar Land Reforms (Fixation of Ceiling Area and Acquisition of Surplus Lands) Act, 1961 (hereinafter referred to as 'the Act, 1961').

(2.) The factual background of the case, as stated in the writ petition, is that the petitioner filed a writ petition being C.W.J.C No. 1128/1992(R) before the Ranchi Bench of the Patna High Court seeking quashing of the draft notification issued under Sec. 15(1) of the Act, 1961 by which the respondents acquired certain land of the petitioner with a finding that the same are above the ceiling limit. The said writ petition was heard along with another writ petition being C.W.J.C No. 1267/1992(R) [Ashok Kumar Jha Vs. State of Bihar & Ors.] and disposed of vide common judgment dated 28.07.1999. The operative part of the said judgment reads as under:

(3.) The grievance of the petitioner is that though he filed another application on 07.01.2000 before the respondent No.2, pursuant to the judgment dated 28.07.1999 passed by the Ranchi Bench of the Patna High Court in C.W.J.C. No. 1128/1992(R) in addition to his earlier application dated 10.02.1992, yet the respondent No.2 has not passed any order in terms with the aforesaid direction contained in the judgment dated 28.07.1999.