Rama Devi (Dead) vs Government Of Orissa on 20 January, 2014
In the case of Prafulla Chandra Muduli and others
v. State of Orissa and others, 2005 (Supp) OLR 950, it was laid
down that invoking provisions of the Orissa Survey and Settlement Act,
a Settlement Officer cannot sit in appeal and nullify an order passed by
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the O.E.A. Collector and, that too, more than two decades after the
order passed by the O.E.A. Collector, which might be right or wrong. In
the event, a wrong order was passed, the Statute provides the
procedure to rectify the same. The observations made by the
Settlement Officer that the O.E.A. Collector lacked jurisdiction was
misconceived. In paragraph-8 of the judgment, it was held as follows: