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The dispute involved in this writ petition relates to khata no.185, plot no.504 (minjumla), situate at village Subhanpur, Pargana and Tehsil Baghpat (then lying in district Meerut, now Baghpat). The dispute is about an area of 2 bigha & 12 biswa, part of plot no.504, last mentioned, which according to the petitioners was allotted to them on a sirdari patta by the Land Management Committee of the Gaon Sabha vide a resolution dated 09.10.1960. The aforesaid land is hereinafter referred to as the 'land in dispute'.

The petitioners assert that they continued in possession over the land in dispute as sirdar and regularly paid the rent due. Sometimes later, the petitioners along with other natives of the village, similarly circumstanced, to wit, Atar Singh, Lakhi, Deshraj, Parmal and Ramdas, applied for mutation of their names on the basis of the sirdari patta granted in their favour by the Land Management Committee. The Sub-Divisional Officer, Baghpat by his order dated 01.04.1969 directed recording of the petitioners' name (along with the other applicants) on the basis of the patta executed in their favour. The aforesaid order was a common order, ordering mutation in favour of the different applicants for mutation, relatives to the lands for which each of them had been granted patta by the Land Management Committee.

It must be recorded here that when the impugned orders were passed, village Sudhanpur lay within the local limits of District Meerut. It now lies in the District of Baghpat, that has been subsequently carved out. The Revisional Authority competent to redetermine the Revision or any other proceedings by Authorities subordinate to him, would be the Revisional Authority under the Act, at District Baghpat and not Meerut. The Revision shall be determined by the District Deputy Director of Consolidation, Baghpat himself and will not be assigned to any other Deputy Director of Consolidation.

The Collector/ District Deputy Director of Consolidation, Meerut is ordered to provide all relevant records to the District Deputy Director of Consolidation at Baghpat upon a requisition sent to him for the purpose, unless those records have not already been transferred to the establishment at Baghpat.

Costs easy.

Date: 18.08.2020 NSC/ Anoop