WRIT - B No. 4503 of 2018 at Allahabad

Reserved A.F.R. HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD WRIT - B No. - 4503 of 2018 Nagar Panchayat Akbarpur …..Petitioner Versus Member Board of Revenue, U.P. …..Respondents and others Counsel for Petitioner : Anurag Singh, Govind Krishna, Kamla Singh Counsel for Respondents : Amit Sinha, Babu Lal Ram, C.S.C., Dinesh Pathak, Mayuri Mehrotra, Rajan Upadhyay, Rakesh Pathak, Ramesh Upadhyaya(Senior Adv.), Shyam Sundar Court No. - 44 HON'BLE J.J. MUNIR, J. 1. When litigation ends with judgment, and that judgment attains finality due to its approval by the last Court or a non- challenge, the losing party must know that there cannot be a new beginning. This is the underlying principle of finality in the procedural laws, that gives effect to one of the most cardinal of the public policies that there cannot be a cause suited between parties ad infinitum. Once decided and finality attaches, the rights of parties cannot be permitted to remain in a state of perpetual uncertainty, with one side or the other springing up a fresh challenge in someway, direct or insidious. This is after all the public policy underlying the doctrine of res judicata. Unfortunately, a State Body, called the Nagar Pan