Umakant and 4 Others v. State of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. Deptt. of Revenue U.P. Lko. and 4 Others
Case brief
What is this about?
Allahabad High Court (Lucknow Bench), WRIT - B No. 572 of 2025, Subhash Vidyarthi, J., 19.6.2025, Neutral Citation 2025:AHC-LKO:35997. Keywords: Board of Revenue; Revision No. 1413 of 2025; stay of Additional Commissioner (Administration) Kanpur Division order; admission of revision; narration of court happenings deemed correct; correctness of recorded appearance of caveator's counsel (Sri Kshitij Saxena); challenge to narration only via review application before same authority, not before higher court; State of Maharashtra v. Ramdas Shrinivas Nayak (1982) 2 SCC 463 relied upon; Article 226; Uttar Pradesh revenue matter. Relevant where a litigant disputes what transpired before a lower forum as recorded in an order and seeks writ relief instead of review.
What did the court decide?
Since the petitioners did not file any application before the Board of Revenue seeking correction of the narration, this Court declined to go into the correctness of the narration of the happenings of the court recorded in the impugned order; per State of Maharashtra v. Ramdas Shrinivas Nayak (1982) 2 SCC 463, such narrations are deemed correct and can be questioned only through a review application before the same authority, not before a higher court.