BHONRI ALIAS JATAN KANWAR Vs. STATE OF RAJASTHAN
LAWS(RAJ)-1988-9-63
HIGH COURT OF RAJASTHAN
Decided on September 28,1988

Bhonri Alias Jatan Kanwar Appellant
VERSUS
STATE OF RAJASTHAN Respondents

JUDGEMENT

FAROOQ HASSAN,J. - (1.) IN this writ petitition, the validity of the orders dated 14 -1 -1988 (in review petition), dated 15 -4 -1987 of the Board of Revenue, and dated 29 -9 -1980 of the Revenue Appellate Authority has been challenged by the petitioner, and this has arison out of the following circumstances.
(2.) A suit filed by the petitioner was decree vide order dated 18 -8 -1979 (Anx. 9) by the Assistant Collector, Bhartpur, and an appeal filed against the aforesaid order (Anx. 9) before the Revenue Appellate Authority Bharatpur was allowed reversing the judgment of the Assistant Collector, and the second appeal was filed before the Board of Revenue which was dismissed on April 15, 1987 vide Annexure 11, against which a review petition was also filed but, with no success to the petitioner. The case of the petitioner is that the land bearing Khasra No. 794 measuring 2 Bighas 15 Biswas, situated in village Semali Tehsil Nagar district Bharatpur, was in his Khudkasht, and was recorded in Jamabandi of S.Y. 2012 corresponding to the year 1955; further that, after the abolition of the 'Biswedari'. the land in question was erroneously recorded as 'Sawai Chak -Charagah' (pasture land) in the revenue record in S.Y. 2004 although in fact it was never declared as pasture land by any competent authority nor was used as such. Raghunath Singh (now deed and being represented by his danghter, Bhuri alias Jatan Kanwar, the present petitioner) had filed an application before the Collector for correction of the entries and consequently, a note was inserted in Jamabandi of S.Y. 2024. To substantiate the above facts, certified copy of the Jamabandi of S.Ys. 2008, 2012 and 2024 have been filed as Annexures 1, 2 and 3 on the application for correction of the tehsil record the Tehsildar passed an order dated 23 -8 -1966 (Annexure 4) which was also field in the original suit.
(3.) IT has not been disputed that at the time when the suit was filed in the Court of the Assistant Collector, the land in question was recorded in the revenue records as Sawai Chak (pasture land). Though the suit of the petitioner's father was decreed but the Revenue Appellate Authority reversed the findings arrived at by the learned trial Court on the ground that Jamabandi of S.Y. 2012 and the judgment of the Collector which were produced before the Tehsildar have not been produced before it, as such it cannot be said that the land in question was in Khudkasht of the petitioner. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the judgment of the Tehsildar delivered on the basis of the Jamabandi of S.Ys. 2008 and 2012, was a relevant and conclusive document. In view of the averments made in the plaint and the fads admitted by the petitioner the case of the petitioner before the Revenue Courts was that he was a tenant of the disputed land for which a declaration was sought and for that purposes it was necessary for the petitioner to have filed relevant document in support of his claim.;


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