JUDGEMENT
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(1.) HEARD Mr.S.P.Sharma, learned counsel for the applicants.
By the instant application, a review or reconsideration of the
judgment and order dated 17.12.2012 rendered in D.B.Civil Writ
Petition No.13045/2012 has been sought for.
(2.) THE aforementioned writ proceeding was initiated at the instance of two residents of Aguni Dhani espousing a public cause
to get cleared land bearing khasra no.11, 14, 21, 50,132 and 158 of
village Seranibad, Patwar Circle Chhoti Khatu, Tehsil Deedwana
District Nagaur of the encroachments thereon. The petitioners
stated that the land belonged to the Government and is shown as
Gair Mumkin Magra in the revenue records. According to them,
though on the basis of their repeated representations before the
Tehsildar as well as the District Collector, Nagaur, notices had
been issued to the trespassers under section 91 of the Rajasthan
Land Revenue Act, 1956 (for short, hereafter referred to as "the
Act"), no action for removing them eventually did materialize.
That meanwhile, the trespassers had instituted a suit alongwith an
application for temporary injunction in the Court of the learned
Civil Judge (Jr.Div.), Deedwana and the same had been dismissed,
was mentioned as well.
A Coordinate Bench of this Court, after hearing the learned counsel for the parties present before it, issued the following
operative directions:
"After considering submissions of the learned counsel for the parties, we think it proper to direct that in case the petitioners file a representation before the District Magistrate, Nagaur within a period of two weeks from today alongwith copy of this order, then District Magistrate is directed to consider and decide the same and in case the encroachers are found on the disputed land, the same may be removed forthwith."
(3.) THE records reveal that thereafter the petitioners did submit a representation as permitted by the aforementioned order and as
even thereafter, the concerned authorities dithered to remove the
encroachments, they (petitioners) approached this Court by filing
D.B.Civil Contempt Petition No.247/2013. The applicants herein
apprised this Court in the contempt proceedings that as they were
sought to be ousted from their respective positions in course of the
exercise undertaken in compliance of the judgment and order
dated 17.12.2012, they contemplated to file an application for
review thereof. By order dated 9.9.2013 passed in the contempt
petition, a Coordinate Bench of this Court, however, did not
interdict the process of eviction underway and rather granted the
District Collector cum the District Magistrate, Nagaur one month's
time to remove the remaining encroachments on the land and to
submit a report to that effect. Before issuing this direction, this
Court took note of the reply filed by this authority to the effect
that as a follow up step to the representation submitted by the
writ petitioners, 86 encroachers had been detected and that 42
therefrom had been removed. This respondent as well mentioned
in his reply that prior to the act of such removal, a process under
section 91 of the Act had been initiated and that the remaining 44
encroachers had set up permanent structures.;
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