PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. 342 of 2025 at Lucknow

Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:38786-DB Court No. - 1 Case :- PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. - 342 of 2025 Petitioner :- Vishwa Deepak Tripathi Respondent :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Revenue Lko. And Others Counsel for Petitioner :- Neeraj Pandey Counsel for Respondent :- C.S.C.,Pankaj Gupta,Ratnesh Chandra,Sharad Tewari Hon'ble Attau Rahman Masoodi,J. Hon'ble Shree Prakash Singh,J. 1. Heard Sri Neeraj Pandey, learned counsel for the petitioner, Sri Varun Pandey, learned counsel for opposite party no. 2, Sri Ratnesh Chandra assisted by Sri Manav Rathore, counsel for opposite party no. 5 and Ms Isha Mittal, learned A.C.S.C. for the State. 2. What transpires from the record is that the land in question was recorded in the name of opposite party no. 7. 3. The opposite party no. 7 had filed an application before the competent authority under section 122-B(4F) of the UPZA & LR Act. The said provision for ready reference is extracted below:- "Notwithstanding anything in the foregoing sub-sections, where any agricultural labourer belonging to a Scheduled Caste or Scheduled Tribe is in occupation of any land vested in a Gaon Sabha under Section 117 (not being land mention