- (1.) Heard learned Counsel for the petitioner Sri M.N. Singh and Sri Manish for the respondent No. 4.
(2.) The Land Management Committee is before this Court questioning the correctness of the order passed by the Additional Collector, Finance and Revenue dated 19.2.2011 as affirmed in revision by the learned Additional Commissioner on 19th May, 2011, on the ground that the allotment proceedings in favour of the respondent No. 4 were vitiated as the respondent No. 4 was not eligible for being allotted housing site under the provisions of Section 122-C of the U.P. Z.A. & L.R. Act, 1950. Several grounds were taken but the plea raised on behalf of the Land Management Committee came to be rejected by the learned Additional Collector on the ground that the proceedings for cancellation have been presented on behalf of the Land Management Committee through a private lawyer who is not empanelled under the provisions of the U.P. Panchayat Raj Act, 1947 read with Paragraph 131 of the Gaon Sabha Manual. The complaint was accordingly rejected, and aggrieved the Land Management Committee went up in revision which has also resulted in the affirmation of the said decision on the same ground. Sri Singh submits that the filing of the proceedings was at the most irregular and the same could have been rectified with the appearance of the empanelled lawyer and as such there was no occasion to reject the proceedings in its entirety.
(3.) Having heard Sri M.N. Singh and learned Counsel for the respondent, it is evident that the authorities have placed reliance on a judgment of this Court in the case of Gram Panchayat v. State of U.P., 2007 102 RevDec 201, to arrive at the aforesaid conclusion. In the opinion of the Court, there is no error in the said conclusion drawn by the authorities and the same view has been taken by this Court in the case of Jagdish Pandey v. Additional Collector (City) & others, Writ Petition No. 17743 of 1997, decided on 3.8.2011. Accordingly, the writ petition is dismissed with liberty to the Land Management Committee of the Gaon Sabha to proceed in accordance with law and in accordance with the provisions of the Gaon Sabha Manual as indicated hereinabove. Petition dismissed.;