Punjab Village Common Land (Regulation) Act, 1961

The Gram Panchayat of Village Naulakha filed an application under Section 7 of the Punjab Village Common Land (Regulation) Act, 1961 seeking to set aside an earlier injunction decree obtained by the respondents in 1975, alleging that the decree was the result of collusion between the respondents and the then Sarpanch. …

The dispute concerned lands that were originally used for common purposes, later recorded as shamilat deh and vested in a Gram Panchayat under Section 3(a) of the Punjab Village Common Land (Regulation) Act, 1953. After mutation under the Haryana Municipal Common Land (Regulation) Act, 1974 (later declared void), the f…

The appellant purchased agricultural land near the Grand Trunk Road in 1986 and erected a dhaba without obtaining permission under the Punjab Scheduled Roads and Controlled Areas Restriction of Unregulated Development Act, 1963. The land lay in a "controlled area" declared by a Gazette notification under Section 4(1) o…

The Gram Panchayat of Sufipind claimed that plot No.71 was a pathway vested in it under Section 4(2) of the Punjab Village Common Land (Regulation) Act, 1961. An application for realignment of the plot was filed in 1974, long after the consolidation proceedings had been completed in 1959. The authority, exercising revi…