Kishore Sahoo v. State of Odisha
Case brief
What is this about?
Land records mutation/recording inaction case, Odisha. Petitioners' application forwarded by Collector, Cuttack to Tahasildar, Cuttack Sadar (letter dated 25.10.2024) with no subsequent action, despite prior Court directions in W.P.(C) No.1118 of 2010 (order dated 05.04.2010, four-month timeline for similarly situated persons' mutation cases) and W.P.(C) No.10693 of 2021 (disposed 26.03.2021, six-month timeline). Writ disposed with fresh directions: initiate appropriate mutation cases preferably within six weeks; reconstitute missing/untraceable mutation files in accordance with law if necessary. Keywords: Tahasildar Cuttack Sadar, Collector Cuttack, recording of case land, mutation cases, administrative inaction, file reconstitution.
What did the court decide?
Directions to the Tahasildar, Cuttack (Sadar) to dispose of the petitioners' grievance by initiating appropriate mutation cases as expeditiously as possible, preferably within six weeks, and, since the original mutation case records were reported untraceable, to proceed if necessary by reconstituting the file in accordance with law.