IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.17878 of 2017 ====================================================== Bhola Pandit, son of late Lukhadi Pandit, resident of village- Basochak, P.o. Dariyapur, P.s. Warisaliganj, District-Nawada… ... ... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State Of Bihar through Principal Secretary Revenue and Land Reforms Department. 2. The District Collector, Nawada. 3. The Sub-Divisional Officer, Nawada. 4. Deputy Collector Land Reform, Nawada. 5.Circle Officer, Warisaliganj. Nawada. 6.The Bihar State Electricity Board, Patna through its Chairman Respondents. ... ... Respondent/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Raj Nandan Prasad, Advocate For the Respondent/s : Mr.Anand Kishore Ojha, Sr. Advocate ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAJIV ROY ORAL ORDER 4 03-02-2026 Heard the parties. 2. The present petition has been preferred for the following relief/s: (i) for issuance of appropriate writ, order/orders directing the respondents to get free the petitioner's lands bearing Old Khata No. 51 and Old R.5. plot No. 15 now new khata no. 81 R.s. Plot No. 25 measuring an area one Bigha situated at village Basochak, Thana No. 476 Anchal Warisaliganj within district Nawada whereby the respondents have encroached the said land for Construction of electricity Grid without initiating any proceeding under land Patna High Court CWJC No.17878 of 2017(4) dt.03-02-2026 2/2 acquisition Act or without giving any Compensation of the said land and without giving any opportunity to the petitioner directly respondents came with police force and bounded the land through iron wires and started construction works over the said land for the said Electric/grid. 3. The stand of both the State of Bihar as also the Bihar State Power Transmission Company Ltd. (henceforth for short ‘the Company’) is/are that the land in question which was transferred to ‘the Company’ is not a raiyati land. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner though dispute the said contention submits that he shall be approaching the appropriate competent Court to get the title declared so that he makes himself entitled to the compensation amount from the concerned respondent. 5.Granting said liberty, the writ petition is disposed of. Ravi/- (Rajiv Roy, J) U