DHARAM VEER SINGH AND ORS. v. STATE OF HARYANA AND ORS

Citation: [2005] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 1180

Court: Supreme Court of India

Bench: B.P. SINGH, S.H. KAPADIA

Case summary

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Judgment text

, DHARAM VEER SINGH AND ORS. v. STATE OF HARYANA AND ORS. SEPTEMBER 6, 2005 [B. P. SINGH AND S. H. KAPADIA, JJ. ] Land Laws and Agricultural Tenancy : ~ ""- Consolidation scheme-Framed in regard to Sham/at Deh Land- Tenure-holders affected filing writ petition in High Court and later appeal* in Supreme Court-Some ofthe tenure-holders who were not parties before High Court, filing writ petition in Supreme Court-Held, Civil Appeal having been dismissed, writ petition also dismissed as devoid ofmerits. *Bhagirath Singh & Anr. v. State ofHaryana and Anr. , [2005) 7 SCC 556, referred to. CIVIL ORIGINAL JURISDICTION: Writ Petition (C) No. 413 of2003. Under Article 32 of the Constitution of India. S. K. Verma for the Petitioners. Ajay Siwach, Pardeep Dahya and T. V. George for the Respondents. The Judgment of the Court was delivered by B. P. SINGH, J.

: This Writ Petition has been filed by some of the land holders who are affected by the Consolidation Scheme framed in regard to Shamlat Deh lands ofthe concerned villages: The said scheme was challenged by some other proprietors and co-sharers in Civil Writ Petition No. 18310 of 1998 before the High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh. The said writ petition having been dismissed, Civil Appeal No. 646 of 2000 was preferred before this Court by Special Leave. Dispite the order of status-quo granted by this Court pending the appeal, the petitioners alleged that they were before displaced since they were not parties in the writ petition filed before ~ the High Court. ',k DHARAM VEER SINGH v. STATE OF HARYANA [B. P. SINGH, J. ] 1181 They, therefore, filed the instant writ petition which has been heard A along with civil Appeal No. 646 of of 2000. We have delivered our judgment today dismissing the Civil Appeal No. 646 of 2000.

We find no merit in this writ petition filed by the petitioners and the same is accordingly dismissed. B R. P. Appeal dismissed. ..