WRIT - B No. 285 of 2025 at Lucknow

A.F.R. Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:19323 Court No. - 7 Case :- WRIT - B No. - 285 of 2025 Petitioner :- Kailash Respondent :- Deputy Director Of Consolidation, Sitapur And Another Counsel for Petitioner :- Ram Asarey Verma Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C. Hon'ble Saurabh Lavania,J. 1. Heard Shri Ram Asarey Verma, learned counsel for the petitioner, Shri Hemant Kumar Pandey, learned Standing Counsel for the State/opposite party No.1 and perused the record. 2. Issuance of notice to opposite party No.2 is hereby dispensed with liberty to the opposite party No.2 to file an appropriate recall application of this order, if aggrieved by this order. It is for the following reason (s) :- (a) without entering into the merits of the case, in the light of settled principle related to power of Deputy Director of Consolidation (in short "D.D.C.") under Section 48 of the U.P. Consolidation of Holdings Act, 1953 (in short "Act of 1953"), this Court is remanding the matter to D.D.C. for deciding the same on merits; (b) issuance of notice would unnecessary delay the proceedings in issue; and (c) the settled principle related to power of D.D.C. under Section 48 of the Act of 1953 could not be