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Settlement of waste land to be made by patta in prescribed form- Settlement of waste land shall be made by a patta or amalnama in the prescribed form. The patta or amalnama shall be prepared in quadruplicate, one copy shall be given to the raiyat concerned, one copy shall be sent to the Deputy Commissioner, one copy shall be sent to the landlord and the fourth shall be retained by the village headman or mulraiyat, as the case may be. Sections 27,28,59 and 61- Settlement of Waste land.- order passed by Sub- Divisional Officer in favour of non-jamabandi raiyat, after following procedure prescribed thereof in Section 27 and 28. Settlement of Waste land in favour of non –jamabandi raiyat is not against law. Cancellation of settlement by Revisional and Appellate Authority amount to failure to justice. The provisions are not mandatory under the Act. {Mihir kumar jha v. State of Bihar, 1997 (1) BLJR 172: 1997 (1) PLJR 716: 1997 BBCJ 364}. Section 27 and 29-Mulraiyat and village pradhan are similar words- Village headman also same category- Mulraiyat can retain raiyati lands, patta of land cancelled. Because petitioner was grandson of village pradhan. Held- Cancellation is invalid as petitioner was not retaining any raiyat.- The word mulraiyat is synonymous with the word “Village Pradhan” or “village headmand” and only difference is that mulraiyat are entitled to retain their rayati lands. There was no material before Divisional Commissioner to hold that the petitioner was in any way retaining any raiyati land in the capacity of mulraiyat or in capacity or co-mulraiyat of the village and merely because the petitioner happened to be Bhagina (Sister’s son) of the village pradhanm he could not have been categorised a co- mulraiyat attracting the provisions of Section 29 of the Act. {Gadahar Mandal v. state of Bihar,2000 (2) BLJ 784: 2000 (3) PLJR 756 (Pat)}.