4. The petitioners of both the writ petitions were alleged to have encroached the government land leased to TISCO Ltd., Jamshedpur. The Collector under the Act, 1956, Jamshedpur initiated land encroachment proceedings against the writ petitioners on the request made by M/s. TISCO Ltd. alleging that they had encroached the land leased to it by the State Government. In the cases of the petitioners of the both the writ petitions, the Collector under the Act, 1956 passed the order under Section 6 of the said Act ex-parte. The case of the respondent-State is that the petitioners, even after service of notice under Section 3(1) of the Act, 1956 did not choose to participate in the land encroachment proceedings and therefore, the Collector under the Act, 1956 had no other option but to pass final order directing the petitioners to remove the alleged encroachment from the land in question. The writ petitioner of W.P.(C) No. 2181 of 2007 however belatedly filed appeal before the Deputy Commissioner, East Singhbhum against the ex-parte order dated 06.11.2004 passed by the Collector under the Act, 1956, being B.P.L.E. Appeal No. 172 of 2006-07 along with a limitation application under Section 5 of the Limitation Act for condonation of delay. However, the said appeal was dismissed by the said appellate authority vide order dated 29.03.2007 treating the said appeal to be barred by limitation. So far as the writ petitioners of W.P.(C) No. 2194 of 2007 are concerned, they did not prefer any appeal against the order dated 15.09.2004 passed in B.P.L.E. Case No. 118 of 1989. 5. The order dated 29.03.2007 passed by the Deputy Commissioner, East Singhbhum, Jamshedpur in appeal preferred by the petitioner of W.P.(C) No. 2181 of 2007 refusing to entertain the appeal on merit, does not appear to be justified. Since the petitioner of W.P.(C) No. 2181 of 2007 did not appear in the original land encroachment proceeding, obviously he would not know about the actual date of order passed by the Collector under the Act, 1956. No citizen should be left remediless against any order passed by the
