Apart from this the Panchayat had numberother land to cultivate, due to which the Panchayat is unable to devel op the agricultural schemes and in these circumstances of the matter I companydone the delay in filing the present application.
1979 observed that it was evident from the perus al of the record that the Scheme of Consolidation of the village was companyfirmed on 15.1.
1974 whereas the application had been filed on 20.9.
After hearing the parties the Director in his order dated 8.2.
From the Judgment and Order dated 21.9.1979 of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in Civil Writ Petition No.
2247 of 1979 allowing the petition and setting aside the order of the Director, Consolidation of Holdings dated 8.2.1979.
Be sides, the land of Dharat companytaining two wells and a big house being religious place of worship was also partitioned under the Scheme and companysequently the Panchayat has been reduced to a landless person, financially weakened and rendered incapable of rendering service in the village.
After the expiry of six months period the application was time barred.
The Panchayats case was that under the said Scheme the Panchay at land was companysolidated, repartitioned and allotted to persons who did number have any right to hold the land.
The Panchayat, there fore, moved an application under section 42 of the Act on 20.9.1977 for setting aside the Scheme, objecting to the utilisation of the land of value of /2/ two annas and allotments made to the other rightholders for their benefit.
The appellant Gram Panchayat, hereinafter referred to as the Panchayat, was the owner of 1200 Bighas of land in village Kanonda, Tehsil Bahadurgarh, District Rohtak.
However, he said in his order In this case only to benefit some land own ers, the land of the value of two annas has been allotted due to which the deserving persons have been left over and they have number been given even Abadi plots.
While the Division Bench companyprising P.C. Jain and Tewa tia, JJ of the Punjab and Haryana High Court in the instant case applied the period of limitation to the companyfirmation of the scheme and in that view of the matter set aside the Directors order, the Full Bench companyprising P.C. Jain, Acting C.J., Tewatia and Tiwana, JJ.
584 of 1982.
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1977 and as such the application had been filed too late.
The revision petition was filed soon after the new Sarpanch came into office.
2247 of 1979.
Harbans Lal and Ashok K. Mahajan for the Respondents.
N. SAIKIA, J. This appeal by special leave is from the Judgment of the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandi garh dated 21.9.1979 in Civil Writ Petition No.
B. Rohtagi and M.S. Mann for the Appellant.
The following Judgment of the Court were delivered by RAMASWAMY, J. I wholly agree with my learned brother Saikia, J. with regard to the reasoning and the companyclusions.
1979 a Mushtehri Mundadi was made for information of all the villagers companycerned, but the rightholders were absent and ex party proceedings were taken against them.
On 24.1.
A Scheme of companysolidation of holdings, hereinafter referred to as the Scheme, of the village was companyfirmed on 15.1.1974 under section 20 of the East Punjab Holdings Consolidation and Prevention of Fragmentation Act, 1948 50 of 1948 , hereinafter referred to as the Act.
