PREM CHANDRA TIWARI Vs. SUB-DIVISIONAL OFFICER

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE petitioner Prem Chandra Tiwari has come up questioning the order dated 16.9.2013, passed by the Sub Divisional Officer, Sadar, District Maharajganj, withdrawing the permission granted to the petitioner on 3.9.2013 for carrying out fishing activities over the pond in question. The impugned order records that the order dated 3.9.2013 had been obtained by the petitioner without disclosing correct facts and, therefore, the same deserves to be recalled.? A sum of Rs.40,000/ - had also been deposited by the petitioner pursuant to the order dated 3.9.2013. Sri Verma, learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the lease of the petitioner was for a period of 10 years, which is undisputed, but the petitioner was not allowed to operate for the entire period for which the lease had been granted.? In the said circumstances the petitioner deserves to be compensated for allowing him to run the lease uptill 2015.?

(2.) THE contention raised is that it is for the said reason that the petitioner moved an application on which he was called upon to deposit a sum of Rs.40,000/ - which he did and then was granted permission on 3.9.2013. Having heard Sri Verma, it appears that the Gram Pradhan of the village has moved an application that the lease of the petitioner already stood determined as the period of the lease had already come to an end on 30.4.2013.? It is on this application that the Sub Divisional Officer proceeded to withdraw the said order dated 3.9.2013 after coming to the conclusion that such a permission could not have been granted.?

(3.) APART from this, in view of the law laid down in the case of Ram Kumar and others Vs. State of U.P. and others, 2005 (99) RD 823, such ponds are now to be put to auction and cannot be settled in the manner as suggested by the petitioner.