EJAJ AHMAD AND OTHERS v. BOARD OF REVENUE, LUCKNOW AND OTHERS
A227/2887/2025 · 2025-05-16
Saurabh Lavania
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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:28891 Court No. - 7 Case :- MATTERS UNDER ARTICLE 227 No. - 2887 of 2025 Petitioner :- Ejaj Ahmad And Others Respondent :- Board Of Revenue, Lucknow And Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Bajrang Bahadur Singh Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.,Mohan Singh,Virendra Mishra Hon'ble Saurabh Lavania,J. Heard learned Counsel for the petitioner and Sri Yogesh Awasthi, learned State Counsel. In view of order proposed to be passed, issuance of notice to the private-respondent(s) is hereby dispensed with. The instant petition has been preferred seeking following main relief(s):-
"[I] Direct the opposite party No. 1 i.e. court of learned Board of Revenue, Lucknow, U.P. to decide the interim relief application pending in Second Appeal No. 1030/2024/Sultanpur, computerized Case No. R20240468001030 (Ejaj Ahmad and others Versus State of U.P. through Collector, Sultanpur and others), Under Section-208 of U.P. Revenue Code, 2006, which is pending before him since 27.03.2024 and parties may be directed to maintain the status-quo over the land in dispute in accordance with law, as expeditious as possible or within stipulated period of time as fixed by this Hon'ble Court, in the interest of justice." Taking note of the facts and circumstances of the case and period of pendency of the application in issue, the instant petition is disposed of with a direction to the Authority concerned namely Board of Revenue, Lucknow, to consider and decide the interim relief application in issue, indicated in above quoted prayer clause of this petition, after taking note of the judgment passed in the case of Mool Chand Yadav & Another vs. Raza Buland Sugar Company Ltd., Rampur and Others, (1982) 3 SCC 484 and the judgment passed by this Court in Writ - C No.5923 of 2021 (Maheshwar Pratap Shahi vs. State of U.P. & 5 Others) and in Writ - A No.3095 of 2022 (Rakesh Rathor vs. Gajanand Maheshwari), on the next date fixed in the case, if possible, and if it is not possible, then within a period of two months from the next date fixed in the case, after affording full opportunity of hearing to the parties to the litigation and without granting unnecessary adjournment to either party. It is made clear that the Court has not examined the case of either party on merits and the Authority concerned shall be free to decide the matter strictly in accordance with law.
With the aforesaid, the petition is disposed of. Order Date :- 16.5.2025 Jyoti/- Digitally signed by :- JYOTI RAJWANI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench