Amendment status not verified — confirm the current text below against the official source.
Disputed ownership.— (1) Where there is a disputed claim as to the ownership of any piece of land included in an area in respect of which the Planning and Development Authority has published a draft scheme under section 59 or in an area included in such scheme under section 62 and any entry in the Record of Rights or Mutation Register relevant to that disputed claim is inaccurate or inconclusive, an inquiry may be held, on an application made by the Planning and Development Authority at any time prior to the date on which the Planning and Development Authority draws up the draft scheme for submission to the Government under section 68, by such officer as the Government may appoint for the purpose of deciding the owner for the purposes of this Act. (2) The decision of the officer appointed under sub-section (1) shall not be subject to appeal but it shall not operate as a bar to a regular suit. (3) The decision referred to in sub-section (1) shall, in the event of a Civil Court passing a decree which is inconsistent therewith, be corrected, modified or rescinded in accordance with such decree as soon as practicable after such decree has been brought to the notice of the Planning and Development Authority either by the Civil Court or by some person erected by such decree. (4) Where the decree of a Civil Court referred to in sub-section (3) is passed after the concerned scheme is approved by the Government such scheme shall be deemed to have been suitably varied by reason of such decree.