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Further, an important point noted by the Court was of the regularization of \u2018encroachment\u2019 by the Revenue Courts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, on analysing the situation and the importance of these water bodies and Gram Panchayat land towards the entire community and relying upon the Supreme Court cases of <em><strong>Jagpal Singh v. State of Punjab<\/strong>, <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/riFWLfpz\"><strong>(2011) 11 SCC 396 <\/strong><\/a>and <strong><em>Hinchlal Tiwari v. Kamla Devi, <\/em>2001 (92) R.D. 689<\/strong>, in which it was clearly laid down that \u2018regularization of the encroachment of Gram Panchayat land is impermissible\u2019, directions were issued to the State Government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Therefore, the Hon\u2019ble Court placed a clear vision to the State Government by issuing mandatory directions for the prevention of the \u2018encroachment\u2019 of water bodies as well as Gram Panchayat land, which were as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Encroachments from all the village ponds, playgrounds and common grazing land to be removed in 6 months.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Illegal entries changing the nature of water bodies and common grazing land to be reversed in the original nature.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fencing around the stated water bodies and common grazing land.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Quality of water to be maintained throughout the year.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\">Constitution of a committee in order to identify and locate the water bodies of respective jurisdiction. 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State of Uttarakhand,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/xA0g3qO6\">2018 SCC OnLine Utt 545<\/a>, decided on 13-06-2018]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uttaranchal High Court: The Division Bench comprising of Rajiv Sharma and Lok Pal Singh, JJ., addressed a petition raising the concern of <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8808,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[26354,30633,30632],"class_list":["post-197372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-casebriefs","category-highcourts","tag-directions","tag-gram-panchayat-land","tag-water-bodies"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.4 (Yoast SEO v26.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>State directed to prevent 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