- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Decided
- 6 September 2005
- Bench
- B. P. Singh, S. H. Kapadia
- Result
- Appeal dismissed.
Headnote
Land Laws and Agricultural Tenancy :
Consolidation scheme-Framed in regard to Sham/at Deh Land-Tenure-holders affected filing writ petition in High Court and later appeal* in Supreme Court-Some of the tenure-holders who were not parties before High Court, filing writ petition in Supreme Court-Held, Civil Appeal having been dismissed, writ petition also dismissed as devoid of merits.
*Bhagirath Singh & Anr. v. State of Haryana and Anr., [2005) 7 SCC 556, referred to.
Headnote as published in the Digital Supreme Court Reports by the Supreme Court of India. Paragraph references point to the judgment below.
Judgment
B.P. SINGH, J.: This Writ Petition has been filed by some of the land holders who are affected by the Consolidation Scheme framed in regard to Shamlat Deh lands of the concerned villages: The said scheme was challenged by some other proprietors and co-sharers in Civil Writ Petition No. 18310 of 1998 before the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh. The said writ petition having been dismissed, Civil Appeal No. 646 of 2000 was preferred before this Court by Special Leave. Dispite the order of status-quo granted by this Court pending the appeal, the petitioners alleged that they were before displaced since they were not parties in the writ petition filed before the High Court.
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They, therefore, filed the instant writ petition which has been heard along with civil Appeal No. 646 of of 2000.
We have delivered our judgment today dismissing the Civil Appeal No. 646 of 2000. We find no merit in this writ petition filed by the petitioners and the same is accordingly dismissed.
Case details
Arising from
CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION: Writ Petition (C) No. 413 of2003. Under Article 32 of the Constitution of India.
Appearances
S.K. Verma for the Petitioners.
Ajay Siwach, Pardeep Dahya and T.V. George for the Respondents.
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