Patna High Court
Bigan KumarversusThe State of Bihar
- Decided
- Disposal
- WITHDRAWN
- Bench
- RAJIV ROY
Holding
The petition is dismissed as withdrawn.
Summary
The petitioners, Bigan Kumar and Ram Lakhan Choudhry, who belong to SC/ST categories and are landless, filed a writ application seeking a direction to the respondents (various officials of the Bihar Government) to settle a plot of government land they have been occupying for about 50 years as a home. They relied on a circular issued by the Bihar Government concerning land settlement for disadvantaged groups. The petition also included a request for the withdrawal of the petition. The learned counsel for the petitioners subsequently prayed for the withdrawal of the entire application. The Hon'ble Justice Rajiv Roy dismissed the petition on the ground that it had been withdrawn by the petitioners.
Issues considered
- What relief, if any, is available to landless SC/ST petitioners occupying government land under the Bihar Government circular?
- Whether the petition can be entertained after the petitioners themselves seek its withdrawal
Subjects
- land settlement
- SC/ST rights
- government land
- withdrawal of petition
- civil writ jurisdiction
- Bihar Government circular
Judgment
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
Civil Writ Jurisdiction Case No.14484 of 2025
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Bigan Kumar Son of Late Gulabi Devi, and Ram Lakhan Choudhry, Residing
at Village- Badopur P.O.- Gordiha P.S. and Anchal- Rafiganj Dist-
Aurangabad (Bihar) Pin Code- 824125.
... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
1. The State of Bihar through Chief Secretary, Govt. of Bihar, Patna.
2. The Principal Secretary, Revenue Land Reforms, Government of Bihar
Patna.
3. The Commissioner, Gaya (Bihar).
4. The District Magistrate, Aurangabad, Bihar.
5. The A.D.M., Land Reforms, Aurangabad, Bihar.
6. The S.D.O., Subdivision, Aurangabad, District Aurangabad, Bihar.
7. The Circle Officer, Anchal Rafiganj, District Aurangabad, Bihar.
... ... Respondent/s
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Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Surendra Pd. Singh, Adv.
For the Respondent/s : Mr. Standing Counsel (9)
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CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAJIV ROY
ORAL ORDER
3 09-02-2026 Heard Mr. Surendra Pd. Singh, learned counsel for the
petitioner and the State.
2. The present application has been preferred for the
following relief(s):
For a direction to the respondent
number 4 to 7 to settle the land for home
according to the circular of Bihar
Government. The petitioner is belong to
SC/ST and landless. He is residing on
government land having made a home from
50 year bearing khata number 110 plot
number 1053 area .4 dismal Thana number
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707 Anchal Rafiganj district Aurangabad
Bihar and after then he has taken a electric
line from electric department government of
Bihar in his mother and he deposite the
electric bill to the government.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner prays for
withdrawal of the petition.
4. Accordingly, the same is dismissed as withdrawn.
(Rajiv Roy, J)
Vijay Singh/-
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