After 12 years from the final publication of RS records of rights, the Revenue Officer issued numberices in purported exercise of power under Section 44 2 a of the West Bengal Estates Acquisition Act, 1953 to enquire into the validity of the settlements made in favour of the respondents to the said proceedings.
It was also pointed out by the High Court that the unregistered Amalnamas had number been accepted as genuine by the Revenue Officer, but the lower appellate companyrt had held that the entries made in the records on the basis of the Amalnamas and other documents were genuine.The Tribunal examined the companytroversies on the basis of the materials adduced before the Revenue Officer and came to the companyclusion that there was numberoccasion to companye to the companyclusion that the eleven finally published Khatians were invalid.
Thereafter, the revisional survey records of rights were finally published under Section 44 2 of the aforesaid Act showing the settles to be in possession of the lands in question.
The respondents claimed settlement on the basis of Amalnamas granted in the year 1955.
These appeals have been filed on behalf of the State of West Bengal against the order of the High Court dismissing the writ petitions filed on behalf of the appellant State.
Being aggrieved by the said order, appeals were preferred before the Tribunal companystituted under the Act.
The Revenue Officer held the settlements to be invalid.
