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IN THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA AT CUTTACK
W.P(C) No. 13893 of 2023
Jayaram Swain & Others …. Petitioners
Mr. J.R. Kar, Advocate
-versus-
State of Odisha & Others …. Opp. Parties
Mr. J.K. Khandayatray, ASC
CORAM:
THE HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE CHITTARANJAN DASH
Order No.
ORDER 13.03.2026
01.
1. By means of this application, the Petitioner seeks the following relief:-
“Therefore, it is humbly prayed that Your Lordship’s would be graciously pleased to issue a Rule “NISI” in the nature of writ of Mandamus / Certiorari or any other appropriate writ / writs directing the Tahasildar, Kantapada, the Opp. party No.3 to issue a separate record-of-right in favour of Petitioners in respect of the purchase land of their father within a stipulated period of time by implementing the
order dated 29.09.2021 in. Revision Petition bearing R.P. No. 335 of 2007 passed by the Opp. party No. 2, the learned Additional Commissioner, Settlement and Consolidation, Cuttack as Annexure-1.”
2. As emerges from the application, the matter having been brought before the Addl. Commissioner, Settlement and Consolidation, Board of Revenue, Odisha, Cuttack in R.P. No.335 of 2007, the Addl. Commissioner, Settlement and p. 2 Consolidation, Cuttack passed order on 29.09.2021, allowing the prayer of the Petitioner directing the Tahasildar, Kantapada to correct the Hal Settlement Record-of-Right pertaining to an area of Ac.0.17 dec. 5 kadi, in favour of the Petitioner in a separate khata and plot after carving of the purchased area from Hal Settlement Plot No.222 from the impugned Hal Settlement Khata No.167.
3. Accordingly, the Opp. Party No.3 i.e. Tahasildar, Kantapada is directed to implement the order as mandated in the order of the learned Addl. Commissioner, Settlement and Consolidation, Cuttack dated 29.09.2021, if it has not been implemented in the meanwhile, within a period of eight weeks and communicate it to the Petitioner a week thereafter.
4. A free copy of this order be supplied to the learned ASC for onward communication to the authority concerned to ensure compliance.
5. Accordingly, the Writ Petition stands disposed of.
(Chittaranjan Dash) Judge Sarbani Designation: Junior Stenographer