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Rajasthan High Court:<\/strong> The Bench of Mohammad Rafiq and Goverdhan Bardhar, JJ. disposed of a petition with the direction to the petitioner to approach the District Collector for alleviating the grievances of the petitioner.<\/p>\n

The facts of the case are that a public interest litigation petition was filed by the petitioner contending that the Khasra in question was recorded in the revenue records as \u2018gair mumkin pokhar\u2019 (pond) and \u2018gair mumkin rasta\u2019 respectively. The said \u2018pokhar\u2019 was used by the villagers to feed water to the cattle and \u2018rasta\u2019 was being used by the villagers for going to said \u2018pokhar\u2019 and rainy water also came through that \u2018rasta\u2019 to the \u2018pokhar\u2019. It was contended that the Respondents 6 and 7 had encroached upon the aforesaid land of \u2018gair mumkin pokhar\u2019 and \u2018gair mumkin rasta\u2019 and closed the \u2018rasta\u2019 as also filled up the \u2018pokhar\u2019 with the mud. The petitioner several times requested the Tehsildar and the SDO to remove the encroachment over the aforesaid land but no action was taken by the concerned authorities. It was also contended that due to the aforesaid encroachment, the residents were suffering very hardship and they had no alternative \u2018pokhar\u2019 to feed their cattle. It was thus prayed that the respondents be directed to remove the encroachment.<\/p>\n

The Court instead of directly entertaining this public interest litigation petition directed the petitioner to approach the District Collector for an appropriate action that should be taken within 3 months. [Bhagwan Singh v. State of Rajasthan, 2019 SCC OnLine Raj 78<\/b><\/a>, Order dated 04-02-2019]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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