LALMAN MAHTO Vs. STATE OF JHARKHAND

JUDGEMENT

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

(2.) THE petitioners are aggrieved by the order contained in Annexure -5 dated 20.4.2001 passed by the Additional Collector, Hazaribagh, allowing the appeal filed by Khirodhar Mahto i.e. respondent no. 6 and others against the order passed by the Land Reforms Deputy Collector, Hazaaribagh, in Misc. Case No. 5 of 1995 -96 dated 13.6.1998. The order contained in Annexure -6. passed by the Commissioner, North Chhotanagpur Division, Hazaribagh dated 11.2.2002 is also under challenge in this writ application, whereby the Commissioner has affirmed the order passed by the Additional Collector contained in Annexure -5 and dismissed the revision filed by the present writ petitioners.

(3.) ON the other hand, the claims of the private respondents are that Khewat nos. 15/1,15/2,15/3 were prepared in the names of their ancestors and their names were also recorded in the cadastral survey records of right. They were coming in possession of the lands in question since the life time of their ancestors.