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Time of India
15-07-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Cost imposed on three litigants in land ceiling case against govt
Patna: The Patna high court imposed a cost of Rs 25,000 on three people who engaged in a legal battle of a land ceiling case against the state govt for 50 years without any evidence of ownership of their claimed lands. A single bench of Justice Rajiv Roy, while dismissing the writ petition of one Ashok Kumar Tiwary and his two siblings, ordered the litigants to deposit the cost amount in the office of Bihar Legal Services Authority (BALSA) within four weeks. The judgment was delivered on July 10, but it came in the public domain after being uploaded on HC website on Tuesday. The matter relates to the initiation of three land ceiling cases in 1975-76 over 2,100 acres of agricultural land of a landlord named Shatrumardan Shahi of West Champaran district. The three petitioners were purported purchasers of six bighas of land from the son of the landlord. Despite repeated demands made by every court and forum in the last 50 years, they could not furnish a single copy of their sale deed, which was allegedly executed on June 23, 1970. Even the mutation of land was done 25 years after the alleged sale of land. Justice Roy found that these litigants initiated an endless legal battle only to hoodwink the revenue authorities. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like AirSense 11 – Smart tech for deep sleep ResMed Buy Now Undo The sole motive of such litigants was to delay and defeat the purpose of land reform laws of Bihar, whereby surplus lands of landlords (exceeding the area of the ceiling limit) have been acquired by the govt and distributed among landless or marginal farmers, he remarked. Patna: The Patna high court imposed a cost of Rs 25,000 on three people who engaged in a legal battle of a land ceiling case against the state govt for 50 years without any evidence of ownership of their claimed lands. A single bench of Justice Rajiv Roy, while dismissing the writ petition of one Ashok Kumar Tiwary and his two siblings, ordered the litigants to deposit the cost amount in the office of Bihar Legal Services Authority (BALSA) within four weeks. The judgment was delivered on July 10, but it came in the public domain after being uploaded on HC website on Tuesday. The matter relates to the initiation of three land ceiling cases in 1975-76 over 2,100 acres of agricultural land of a landlord named Shatrumardan Shahi of West Champaran district. The three petitioners were purported purchasers of six bighas of land from the son of the landlord. Despite repeated demands made by every court and forum in the last 50 years, they could not furnish a single copy of their sale deed, which was allegedly executed on June 23, 1970. Even the mutation of land was done 25 years after the alleged sale of land. Justice Roy found that these litigants initiated an endless legal battle only to hoodwink the revenue authorities. The sole motive of such litigants was to delay and defeat the purpose of land reform laws of Bihar, whereby surplus lands of landlords (exceeding the area of the ceiling limit) have been acquired by the govt and distributed among landless or marginal farmers, he remarked.
Time of India
15-07-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
Three litigants fined in land ceiling case against govt
Patna: The Patna high court imposed a cost of Rs 25,000 on three people who engaged in a legal battle of a land ceiling case against the state govt for 50 years without any evidence of ownership of their claimed lands. A single bench of Justice Rajiv Roy, while dismissing the writ petition of one Ashok Kumar Tiwary and his two siblings, ordered the litigants to deposit the cost amount in the office of Bihar Legal Services Authority (BALSA) within four weeks. The judgment was delivered on July 10, but it came in the public domain after being uploaded on HC website on Tuesday. The matter relates to the initiation of three land ceiling cases in 1975-76 over 2,100 acres of agricultural land of a landlord named Shatrumardan Shahi of West Champaran district. The three petitioners were purported purchasers of six bighas of land from the son of the landlord. Despite repeated demands made by every court and forum in the last 50 years, they could not furnish a single copy of their sale deed, which was allegedly executed on June 23, 1970. Even the mutation of land was done 25 years after the alleged sale of land. Justice Roy found that these litigants initiated an endless legal battle only to hoodwink the revenue authorities. The sole motive of such litigants was to delay and defeat the purpose of land reform laws of Bihar, whereby surplus lands of landlords (exceeding the area of the ceiling limit) have been acquired by the govt and distributed among landless or marginal farmers, he remarked.
Time of India
11-07-2025
- Politics
- Time of India
HC seeks ATR on Badi Patan Devi temple committee
Patna: The high court on Friday asked the Patna DM to submit an action taken report (ATR) regarding the formation of an 11-member committee for the daily management and upkeep of the Badi Patan Devi temple in Patna City. A single bench of Justice Rajiv Roy passed the order while hearing a contempt petition filed by Prahlad Kumar Yadav. On Oct 10 last year, Justice Roy had asked the Bihar State Board of Religious Trust to immediately remove tainted members from the existing temple management committee and directed the Patna DM to initiate the process of forming a new committee. The court had emphasised that this must be done in line with the guidelines set out in a high court judgment dated July 23, 2024, delivered in a case related to the Kusheshwar Asthan Trust in Darbhanga district. State counsel Prashant Pratap informed the court that a managing committee has already been constituted for Kusheshwar Asthan in compliance with the July 2024 judgment. He added that the Board is now legally obligated to form similar committees for all thakurbari, temple and muth entities registered as public religious trusts in Bihar. The matter is scheduled to be heard again on Aug 8.
