PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. 44625 of 2013 at Allahabad

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION (PIL) No. - 44625 of 2013 Raju .....Petitioner(s) Versus State of U.P. through Secretary and 3 others .....Respondent(s) Counsel for Petitioner(s) : Shiv Kant Mishra Counsel for Respondent(s) : Rajiv Singh, S.C., Brajesh Kumar Singh, Mahesh Narain Singh, Suresh Singh Chief Justice's Court HON'BLE ARUN BHANSALI, CHIEF JUSTICE HON'BLE KSHITIJ SHAILENDRA, J. 1. The matter has been listed under the category of 'oldest pending cases in this High Court, for priority hearing'. 2. This petition, purportedly in public interest, has been filed seeking quashing of the order dated 14.07.2009 (Annexure-2) issued under Section 117(6) of U.P. Zamindari Abolition and Land Reforms Act, 1950 ('the Act') with the submissions that the land in question was recorded as pasture land and that a school was standing thereon. 3. Instructions have been produced on behalf of respondent no. 3 inter alia indicating that the land comprising Khasra No. 484 was recorded in the name of Machhala wife of Rajmed and Gyani, however, subsequently the said entries were quashed under Section 198(4) of the Act and the land was vested in the Gram Sabha, which f